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...Society of Philatelic Americans and to the Collectors Club, of which New Jersey's onetime Senator Frelinghuysen and Pianomaker Theodore Steinway are also members. Of the estimated 3,000,000 U. S. stamp collectors, Scott Stamp & Coin Co. guesses that perhaps a maximum of 500.000 are adult, potential Roosevelt boosters...
...prominent English bookseller was so shocked by the English edition of Peter Arno drawings (Peter Arno's Parade) that he refused to sell the book. But Peter Arno's Circus is not nearly so crude as The Stag at Eve (TIME, Dec. 21), should shock no adult...
...Wilson practice of "adjourning politics" and appointing Republicans to office, Mr. McAdoo declared: "It was a wise course and it gave some of the Republican leaders of today their start in political life. Herbert Hoover was one. Hoover was a practically unknown man who had spent most of his adult life abroad. . . . His chief distinction had been acquired in distributing free food to the Belgian people-a celebrity easily won. I fancy, as the job of giving away things requires very little wear and tear on one's ability...
...control of education by means of money-grants with strings tied to them. Let the Government give money, maintain fact-finding services; but let all real control remain with cities or States. Also, the report proposes that after five years no grants be made for special forms of education-adult, vocational, agricultural. To this section, the Committee's Negro members-President Robert Russa Moton of Tuskegee Institute, President Mordecai Wyatt Johnson of Howard University, President John W. Davis of West Virginia Collegiate Institute-took strong exception in a minority report, pointing out that Negro education is highly dependent upon...
...Crusaders is an organization which has existed for less than two years. The Prohibition movement gathered momentum for seventy years before it was adopted; therefore it seems little short of infantile to say, "that it is not adult to start with a bang and accomplish nothing...