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...return permanently, and employees are to be assured of their jobs, rational planning of the type recommended by Dean Donham should be adopted. The madcap antidotes to end depression tried in the past three years, the buying campaigns and bonus crusades, are symptoms of the irrational attitude toward the crash. Neither witchcraft nor behavioristic psychology cured economic ills. Since this depression is largely the result of factors which could have been brought altogether under control, the suggestion that a national planning board could restore prosperity is attractively rational...
Roger Ward Babson is a famed statis tician, predicter of the 1929 stock market crash, who has lately turned bullish. Resembling greatly a goateed New England preacher, he is a shrewd, pragmatic religionist, a devout member of the Congre gational & Christian Churches. He is chairman of its Commission on Church Attendance. Last week, in the September Federal Council Bulletin, he presented statistics gleaned thus far in a five-year survey on church going. Chief points: ¶In 1930 and 1931, some 33% of the total membership of 903 Congregational & Christian churches went to church every Sunday...
...tour; Daughter Dorothy, as costar, has the role in Manhattan. Her husband, Charles Collins, has a prominent part. Comedian Stone saves most of his funny remarks for a scene in which he does an imitation of Will Rogers. (Four years ago when Comedian Stone was hurt in an airplane crash, Funnyman Rogers took his place in Three Cheers.) Except for that scene and his one good song ("There's a Bluebird in My Window and a Landlord at My Door") Fred Stone spends most of his time offstage...
...another foreman, marries into the county peerage. With Young Brigg, the Oldroyd blood begins to thin out. Francis, his son, marries Jane's daughter, finds Syke Mill drifting into ruin after the War. There is not much that he or his boy David can do. After the crash, David jumps off the train on which his father is escaping from Ire Valley, starts back to make, presumably, a new beginning...
...install in his plane a barograph, necessary for official recognition of his flight. Next day he had the barograph but a quartering wind slowed him to 282 m.p,h.?.77 less than the necessary margin over the old record. On that day spectators feared he was about to crash into treetops at the north end of the field. Scoffed Doolittle afterward: "I was nowhere near them. I must have been at least four feet over them." Once again he rocketed back & forth, this time endangered by splashing oil which smeared his windhood. His fastest lap was 309 m.p.h. Said...