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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Adjusted Service Compensation Certificates are in the nature of endowment insurance policies payable 20 years after application or upon death. Current cash-equivalent of these certificates could probably be arrived at. But speedy execution of Subscriber Case's idea would require a special session of Congress to say nothing of much other grinding of governmental mills, notoriously slow.-ED. Mr. Lindeman...
...merely as blemishes upon the portrait. Each college generation has it within its power to refine or to smudge this portrait." Horrid Picture. More doleful was the outlook of eloquent, beetle-browed little Warden Bernard Iddings Bell of St. Stephens College (New York), whose views appear in the current Bookman. Excerpt: "Assurances that illiteracy is decreasing among us or that many more children than used to go on nowadays to secondary school and college . . . are, to be sure, sources of joy; but still the horrid picture remains of an increasing immaturity at the top of the intellectual pile...
...made a valiant effort to get in the mood for these mental hazzards. For instance, he very adroitly hung in the wings while Miss Jane Cowl waved her hands and wrists about the zenith as Olivia in "Twelfth Night" which is occupying the foot-lights at the Wilbur (current advertising in this column is 90 cents per inch). That disposed of the Bard. As for Monsieur Homer (even if the nomenclature is a mixed metaphor) he perched over a super-hetrodyne for the Sharkey-Campolo affair and that little detail cleared up the Iliad. He even attempted to get into...
...item last week was a petition for receivership against Kelly-Springfield Tire Co. (Keep Smiling with Kellys). Answering that the application had not been made in good faith, Kelly-Springfield claimed it has suffered no more than any other tire company, that its present position is better than the "current assets nine times current liabilities" showing of June 30, that it earned $270,000 during July and August...
...limited personnel permits, Surgeon General Gumming is willing to send experts to study the health requirements of typical country districts and to demonstrate how local public health services can be operated. Want ads in the current journals of the American Public Health Association and of the American Medical Association indicate that men skilled in public health are willing to work for from $4,000 to $6,000 a year. A Montana community of 3,000 offers $600 a year for part-time work* and expects to get a capable...