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...hearty President Michael Joseph Cleary of Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co. was out to see that it got it. Johns Hopkins' President Joseph Sweetman Ames kept after citizens of Baltimore for the last $150,000 of a set $1,150,000. No Community Chest has New York City but Banker James Gillespie Blaine and his Citizens Family Welfare Committee sought $2.000,000 for a dozen or so family welfare agencies...
...last week's end Community Chest contributions for the nation as a whole averaged 1% above last year's totals, were within 10% of those in 1929. But this year more than ever canvassers have met the stock protest: "Why should I give to private charity when I'm being taxed for government relief?" Stock answer: The Government supplies only life's bare necessities. On private charity still depend such important extras as character-building and leisure-time services, neighborhood centres, camps, guidance clinics, health bureaus...
...Democrats. Outside Washington the leading conservative movement is the American Liberty League which has John W. Davis, Alfred E. Smith, Irénée du Pont, for directors. Very carefully did the League refrain from entering this year's campaign. Meantime, it has built up a campaign chest, and has been busy recruiting potent members. (Sewell Lee Avery, Harry F. Guggenheim and John J. Raskob were last week slated for its governing board.) To date Liberty Leaguers have only intimated that they will offer the U. S. the inedible Constitution but if the Administration's Recovery measures...
...gallstone removed last August, General Atterbury had kept away from his office. For a fortnight he had been cruising off Florida in his yacht Arminia. There the rumors were relayed to him last week. The Arminia put in at Miami, where her master received newshawks on deck, thumped his chest heartily and crowed: "I'm the livest, kickingest person you ever saw. I haven't felt so good since last July...
...like the interior of an ordinary radio. Publicly he explained that Alpha's repertory of answers consisted of 20 or 30 recordings on wax cylinders, as in oldtime phonographs, which were run off in the control cabinets and reproduced from the loud speaker in the robot's chest. Alpha cannot really understand language, but he can respond to a variety of set questions the answers to which have been prepared in advance...