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...Conference and of the United States going back to the gold standard. Dr. Currie believes that the President's statement that "the United States seeks the kind of dollar which a generation house will have the same purchasing and debt-paying power as the dollar value we hope to attain in the near future" is perhaps the most momentous in American monetary history, and is one which he heartily approves. Continuing, he stated. "It is important to realize that while, given international cooperation, it is possible to achieve this ideal under the gold standard, it will be a vastly more...
...they (Concentraton, etc.) attain the result they are good, but for those unaffected thereby they are a wasteful failure. They are not devices of ingenious mechanism, but aids to the student in obtaining that for which he comes, or ought to come, here; and still more in providing the community with the body of serious educated men which justifies the foundation of a college...
This report sheds valuable light on the position of public school men in the colleges. It is evident that the high school graduate has less chance to attain distinction so far as social and extra-curricular activities are concerned, it he goes to a college where prep school men have even a slight numerical majority. On the other hand, where he predominates, the public school man seems to have every change for preferment socially and in campus activities. Indeed, the experience at Dartmouth indicates that where the prep school man is in the ascendant, it is not from any inherent...
...they lived decently and publicly together long enough as husband & wife, were accepted as such in the eyes of the law. despite the fact that their union was unhallowed by the church, unsanctioned by statute. In the other 24 States an eligible bachelor's mistress never could attain the legal status of a wife by merely passing herself off as such...
...Denmark & Iceland* was assigned Ruth Bryan Owen, eldest daughter of the late Great Commoner Bryan, with the distinction of being the first woman in U. S. diplomatic history to attain ministerial rank. Joyfully asked the Copenhagen Press: "Who could understand us better than Denmark's girl friend?"-a reference to the fact that in 1931 Mrs. Owen & family toured that country with a Curtis Aerocar (a two-wheeled trailer containing a kitchenet and four bunks). Madam Minister Owen, who lost her Florida seat in the House March 4. promptly revealed that she had found some Danish ancestors who arrived...