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...Most spectacular Manhattan function was given ... by Mr. & Mrs. Franklyn L. Hutton for their daughter Barbara. . . . Guests: 1000. Cost: $100,000. Item: 2,000 cases of champagne. Setting designed by Joseph Urban; a moonlit garden with eucalyptus sprays, silver birches, potted roses, a gauze canopy speckled with stars." (TIME...
...could these Senators get their hands back on these three Power Commissioners and punish them for their conduct? Their confirmations had gone to the President. They had taken oaths of office and commenced to function. They seemed quite outside the Senate's jurisdiction...
...there is any one function of the preceptorial system which can be called truly new in the Freshman scheme, it is the outside reading on general subjects. This is a contribution peculiar to the tutorial idea. Heretofore it has been a principle that Freshman are not capable of really independent work. The proposal is, in effect, an admission of the exception to the rule. But the individual work will have to be limited...
...Asphalt Shingle & Roofing Institute's affairs the Government claimed to see much that violated anti-trust laws. It objected to the way in which the Institute, whose members dominate the field, reported prices, equalized freight, fixed uniform maximum discounts to customers classified by volume or function. The Government objected, too, to the Institute's arbitration system and method of bonding each member ($25,000 to $100,000) to insure payment of penalties...
...visualize it a number of years hence, it must be confessed that it does not hold the promise suggested by its present brilliant success. Primarily, any venture of this type depends upon an immediate vigorous leader whose judgment of teaching ability is not limited by customary scholastic standards. This function Dr. Holt fulfills. But under a man of more limited human qualities it is easy to see that mere second rate teachers, or worse, job seekers, may take the place of the present professors...