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Educators know the value of classical studies; but practical teachers know that there is a strong element not convinced, and to convince it against its will would be useless...
...advocates placing at each & every street corner a barrel of whiskey with a pull-in dipper chained to it to drive out bootleggers. Realtor Milburn Gregory seeks the office on a platform stressing Reno's "scenic and health attractions." Howard Doyle has the support of ministers and a conservative element opposed to legalized gambling and easy divorce...
Remembrance of the 50 to 2 outcome of last year's game will lend an element of sternness to this afternoon's practice on Soldiers Field. Superior pitching by LeGore, fresh from a cut in Yale's University squad gave victory to the Elis. LeGore fanned 15 men, while 16 errors were chalked up against the Crimson outfield: J. A. Marcus '31 was on the mound last year, with A. L. Knowarsky '31, present First Marshal, unemployed behind...
...element of Depression, wage cuts, past and future, continued last week to engage the perplexed attention of businessmen throughout the land. During March 335 pay reductions averaging 10% and affecting 43,500 workers were reported to the U. S. Labor Department as compared with 26 cuts in the same month last year. March also failed to show any general increase in employment over February though manufacturing industries did hire about 1% more workers. In Manhattan industrialists gathered secretly to discuss the "advisability" of "wage adjustments," departed with the feeling that "moderate reductions" were inevitable. The textile, steel and oil industries...
...Commissioner of Public Works ("Secretary of State" in the Chicago cabinet) Mayor Cermak again turned to the "better element" that had supported his campaign and chose Col. Albert Arnold Sprague, 54. millionaire grocer (Sprague, Warner & Co.), Wartime infantry officer, potent crime crusader, civic leader. Commissioner Sprague had served in the same capacity under Mayor Dever, was thoroughly familiar with...