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...bono politico. In the House 167 members were said to be down in writing as ready to support Bonus legislation, more than enough to force a roll-call vote. Fifty more members were reported as "favorable"' while only 91 were definitely ''opposed." Somewhere in the House background was said to be a colossal petition signed by two million veterans calling for Bonus cash. Though the American Legion was nationally committed against further payments, individual posts throughout the land clamored louder & louder for them. The Veterans of Foreign Wars, frank lobbyists, wangled energetically. The Ways & Means Committee...
...students by the promise of a profitable vocational training. Men intending to enter other vocations have felt the same needs, but it is still the universally accepted duty of the truly cultural college not to train a man technically for some specific occupation, but to give him a broad background in the humanities and exercise in the art of adaptive thinking. By instituting her new course for prospective coaches, Dartmouth has aligned herself in the ranks of that group of colleges which include in their curricula courses in library science, home economics, and hog-calling...
There was much of the usual magnificence. John P. Morgan's gardener, James S. Kelly, showed a wide border of giant tulips against a background of flowering dogwood. Mrs. Payne Whitney's Henning Michelsen built a brick-walled garden, gay with wisteria and flowering bulbs. Marshall Field's George Henry Gillies filled enough buckets with rare roses to bring his employer six different first prizes. Greenhousemen built a 60-ft. bank of flowering orchids like a chorus girl's dream of heaven. A million dollars' worth of blossoms and not a bug or a worm...
...social worker's outlook on the problem will be presented by Dr. Selekman, who is executive director of the Associate Philanthropies of Boston. He will outline the background of the Lafolette-Costigan Bill, which was introduced to appropriate $375,000,000 for unemployment relief, and will compare it with the Wagner Bill now before Congress...
Black is the background for the Lowell cravat, while narrow light blue stripes run diagonally across it at intervals of about two inches; here and there are placed little silver hands grasping three silver arrows...