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...Passed a bill to amend the Pure Food and Drug Act by requiring canned foods below a certain grade to be distinctively labeled, again rejecting theTydings amendment to prohibit insertion of deadly poi- sons in industrial alcohol. ¶ Passed a bill to establish a division of (criminal) identification & information in the Department of Justice. ¶ Passed a bill to create a Bureau of Narcotics in the Treasury Department. ¶ Adopted a joint resolution making July 5 (Saturday) a legal bank holiday in the District of Columbia for this year only. ¶ Passed a bill amending the Federal Farm Loan...
Theatres. Last year Warner Brothers spent $28,000,000 buying theatres. This year, shrewd Vice President & General Manager Sam Morris told the delegates, they will buy "about 1,000 theatres." Added President Harry: "Wherever we cannot play our products, we will establish theatres of our own." Press announcements soon bore out these assertions: 1) Warner Brothers bought for $1,000,000 a plot in Dayton owned by Lee Warner James on which they will build a $2,500,000 theatre. 2) Warner Brothers were about to close a $2,500,000 deal giving them the Schine chain of 50 theatres...
...vocabulary brings added power for those who have capacity for linguistic study. In other instances, where we have been accustomed to think in terms of different divisions,--Algebra, Geometry, or Physics, Biology,--there must be more conscious effort to bring out the common elements and underlying principles and to establish continuity between courses in the same field. Again, even with a homogenous group of student in a course of concentration the instructor must not assume the attitude of the specialist. He is teaching for mastery; but he is not endeavoring to develop mathematical prodigies nor biological experts nor classical scholars...
...Passed a bill to establish a National Institute of Health...
...price of rubber throughout the world that native growers, notorious for their usual indifference to such schemes, joined in. But last week, in the middle of the tapping holiday, the planters received a shock. In London, rubber prices started a swift decline, broke their 1921 low, went on to establish new all-time records for cheapness. Although the tapping restriction had not really had time to be effective, rubber merchants considered last week's market proof of its failure. Ominously, stocks of rubber on hand in London mounted to a new high of 101.380 tons against 35.107 a year...