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...Germany the greatest steel company is the Vereinigte Stalwerke A. G. and for its head it has Fritz Thyssen, king of the Ruhr. It was Thyssen who was Hitler's angel; who, as one move in a battle to retain control of his industrial affairs (dealt a desperate blow by Germany's banking crisis of 1931) began pouring money into the treasury of the Nazis to assure to himself the help of a friendly government. So far, nothing improper; if Thyassen believed in the Nazi philosophy, or the good it might do him, there was no real reason...
...President, not wanting to lose a second good man, hastily issued an executive order authorizing Assistant Secretary Dickinson to take over Dr. Thorp's job until a successor was named. This was a direct blow to Assistant Director Amory who would ordinarily have become acting director. A further blow followed when Dr. Dickinson removed all power over personnel from Mr. Amory, made himself guardian over one of the richest plum trees in Washington and defied hungry politicians to do their worst...
...education' and the reunion of education with the great streams of human knowledge, thought and aspiration. . . . The weaker normal schools and teachers' colleges should be closed, while the remainder should become centers, not of pedagogy as traditionally conceived, but of knowledge and thought." Besides this body blow, the Commission took a savage poke at modern pedagogy's right arm, the intelligence test. What test scores reveal, the Commission did not know. For predicting vocational success. formulating social and educational policies, such tests are "patently limited," "utterly inadequate," "meaningless." Best-known of the authors of these heresies...
...Money's Worth (TIME, July 25, 1927), by Stuart Chase & F. J. Schlink, and 100,000,000 Guinea Pigs (1933), by F. J. Schlink and Arthur Kallet, lifted the lid on some cynical advertising secrets. Last week, amid cries of "Foul!" from its partisans, advertising took a shrewd blow to the midriff from a onetime hireling. Onetime Adman Rorty is no reformed copywriter, for his heart was never in his job ; no reformer either, for he thinks the present "unstable equilibrium" necessitates "the adman's foot on the throttle, speeding up consumption, preaching emulative expenditure, 'styling...
...Bulgaria. With the close of the war, Bulgaria, who had joined the Central Powers, received the terms of her punishment in the Treaty of Neuilly. Since she had lost much in the settlements closing the Balkan Wars, there was not much that could be lost territorially. Possibly the severest blow was the loss of her Aegean coast-line, with economic as well as political consequences. Never a wealthy state at any time, by the war and the peace treaty, Bulgaria was reduced in power, population, area, and resources to a point where she became one of the least important...