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Trained nurses in most communities earn $6 and keep per day. Last week Elnora E. Thomson of Portland, Ore., incoming president of the American Nurses' Association, suggested to their convention in Milwaukee that any patient who could not afford that much and yet did not want cheap ward nursing, might put himself under one nurse's care with two or three other patients, who could split her charges. Some hospitals now have such small-group nursing...
Open-Minded. So firm became the popular conviction that President Hoover would sign the bill because politically he could not afford to do otherwise that the White House took pains to emphasize that he was still "open-minded" and would "study the bill thoroughly" before acting upon it. That was to say, President Hoover would do no less on the Tariff Bill than he does on all legislation-refer it to the interested departments, in this case Treasury and Commerce, for technical opinions. If the President should choose to veto the bill, he would count on Secretaries Mellon and Lamont...
Both Colyumist Brisbane and breezy, able John F. Sinclair of the New York World ignored the merger battle, focused upon the issue of whether any executive is worth a million a year. Said Mr. Brisbane, uncompromisingly: "A civilization that can afford to pay $250,000 a year salary for a few minutes talk on the radio can afford $1,000,000 for running a big steel concern." But Writer Sinclair quoted the late, great Nicholas F. Brady: "No employe of a well-run corporation can possibly be worth in salary over $100,000 a year...
...coins of Canute, king of Denmark and England. He was the king of whom the story is told that he commanded the tide to stop rising. His coins show a feature common to this series, a voided cross on the reverse design. The purpose of this cross was to afford a convenient gauge for cutting the coins into halves and quarters as the practice was then to make change by cutting the penny. A half penny so cut is shown among the coins of Canute...
...long time. One thing is certain, whatever action the British government decides to take on the Indian matter, the question of the future of this tremendous Eastern state will be one of the most important features of the twentieth century. It is a fascinating subject and Americans can not afford to shrug a disinterested shoulder at the fate of 300,000,000 odd souls. For a remarkable picture of the whole business read E. M. Forster's "A Passage To India". If this does not interest in itself there is the fact that the fate of India tells...