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...want to renew my pledge, especially in view of the fact that so many members of Congress, of both parties, seem to have forgotten the basic principle of American politics and . . . create the impression on foreign nations that they do not trust your administration of foreign affairs. They would hamstring your conduct of extremely delicate foreign situations...
...average intelligent adult's vocabulary at about 15,000 words. Recently, however, Northwestern University's Psychology Professor Robert Holmes Seashore* devised a scientific test to determine the total number of English words a person would recognize. It is a multiple-choice examination using sample lists of "basic" and "derived" words from Funk & Wagnails' unabridged dictionary, which lists 450,000 words in all. Dr. Seashore's test includes common words as well as puzzlers like antisialogogue (an agent preventing the flow of saliva). Last week he reported the surprising discovery that the average college student...
...smaller than "recognition") and 3) an "actual" use vocabulary. No accurate tests have been made of the "actual use" vocabulary, but a professional writer who went through Dr. Seashore's test marking words he had used in, speech and writing claimed a working vocabulary of 40,000 basic and 40,000 derived words, a "possible use" vocabulary...
...business conditions. Still more primary are stomach-loadings. But unemployment, though the bitterest index of bad times, is not the best, for the U. S. has never found a satisfactory way of measuring it. Last week, however, Government estimates of unemployment increases, varying widely in figures, were in complete basic agreement: unemployment is growing by leaps & bounds. Leon Henderson, onetime NRA economist, estimated in a study made for WPA that 2,000,000 workers have lost their jobs since September 1, that between 1,000,000 and 2,000,000 more will do so before February 1. Acting WPAdministrator Aubrey...
General Motors' Alfred P, Sloan Jr. gave $10,000,000 worth of securities to institute the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for "the promotion of a wider knowledge of basic economic truths generally accepted as such by authorities of recognized standing." About a third of the gift was in General Motors stock...