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...scientific work authorized by this year's budget falls into three categories. In the first place, there are grants, to a number of professors, of money for the employment of research assistants to aid in the prosecution of investigations they were already carrying on or have this year undertaken. In the second place, there have been some small grants, not of a continuing character, to members of the Department for statistical and clerical assistance connected with particular pieces of research. And finally, grants have been made for two things that may properly be termed "research projects": one a study...
...Faces of the Month" and "A Budget for a $25,000 Income in Chicago" were self-explanatory lesser features toward the back-of-the-book in Vol. 1, No. 1, where a magnificent forest of advertisements arose. Hearing that a "most beautiful magazine in America" was forthcoming, advertisers had flocked in, most of them with specially prepared copy, until they filled 106 pages and three covers, making Vol. 1, No. 1 a 3-lb., 184-page phenomenon...
...Harvard effort to balance the budget by discharging a few scrubwomen rather than pay them two extra cents an hour, as urged by the Massachusetts minimum wage commission, brings the tough-minded realism of the school of business administration into conflict with the more tender-minded humanities, which still flourish, one may hope, in the older departments of the university. It is a tragic collision, in which the humanities have been knocked out. --Springfield Republican...
Before the City Council last week appeared Chicago's Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson. Sweepingly he vetoed two-thirds of the lean budget. Sweepingly he absolved his administration of blame for the fiscal fix, put the blame on real estate revaluators.* Generously he proposed a budget greater by $6,313,000 than Chicago's estimated 1930 revenue, demanded reinstatement of 1,502 employes. Galleries crammed with jobless Thompson men roared with applause when the City Fathers failed to override this program...
...main American activity just now is in connection with the budget and financial rehabilitation. There is a general director of all American activities in Haiti, a financial adviser, and under him a score of assistants. The Americans have the veto power over all expenditures and, in fact, new laws must generally be submitted first to the financial adviser or to some other designated American...