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...Roosevelt (Reynal & Hitchcock, $1) was written by Joseph P. Kennedy, close Roosevelt friend and onetime SEChairman, to explain why he, a man of wealth and business, finds the New Deal good. The Kennedy argument: i) the public debt the New Deal has piled up is outbalanced by economic gains it has produced; 2) its economic legislation, with the exception of the undivided earnings tax, is beneficial to industry; 3) it has brought U. S. democracy safely through the passage between the Scylla of Fascism and the Charybdis of Revolution...
...Associated") has broadcast Pacific Coast Conference football for ten seasons. Preparing for its eleventh, in which it will pay about $100,000 for around 100 games, Associated will send its 22 broadcasters to a two-day meeting at San Francisco. Pacific Coast Conference Football Supervisor Herb Dana will explain the new rules, coaches their new plays. The Southwest Conference takes in a minimum of $14,000 a season and $500 for each game broadcast from Humble Oil & Refining Co. In Lincoln, the Nebraska State Journal last week published the results of a survey which showed that of 72 major colleges...
...will pass on a theorem to the physicist, who uses it and passes it on to the chemist, who in turn uses it and passes it on to the biologist. Ultimately, the cure of a disease may result. . . . Sir Isaac Newton to a large extent worked on calculus to explain some phases of astronomy, but his findings now-more than 250 years later-are applied to calculating width of a brake lining to stop a motor car of a certain size at a certain speed at a given time."- Professor Mark Hoyt Ingraham, University of Wisconsin...
...Cartan finds that some of the "vectors" with which Relativists play have a dual existence-in distorted Einstein space and in undistorted Euclidean space. These amphibian vectors may be links between cosmos and microcosmos. In Dr. Cartan's audience reporters could not find a single mathematician who could explain his method in layman's language. Dr. Cartan tried himself, conscientiously, through an interpreter. Presently all hands admitted defeat, disbanded...
...During the Hauptmann trial, she circularized the Hunterdon County, N. J. venire rolls with a long fantasy to prove the alien carpenter innocent. During the Century of Progress, she tried to have Fan Dancer Sally Rand jailed for indecency. Same year Attorney Spencer was herself haled into court to explain why she had never sent her two daughters to school. Daughters Victoria, now 14, and Mary Belle II, 16, their mother then explained, had been brought up without suppressions or inhibitions; they threw their Christmas tree out the window without a word of parental rebuke; they learned life from...