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Warner Bros, didn't use her, wouldn't let anyone else either. Irwin obtained her release and put her into Broadway's Les Ambassadeurs nightclub, where the late great comedy team of Clayton, Jackson & ("Schnozzle") Durante offered a grade of lunacy which their admirers still feel has never been equaled. Ethel was still far from feature billing and remained so until 1930, when she began to reach larger audiences. At a banquet connected with Franklin Delano Roosevelt's campaign for reelection as Governor of New York she added The Star-Spangled Banner to her lusty repertoire...
...government job is, in the eyes of Hobbing, a particularly unfortunate one. Not only is he blocked by the Civil Service emphasis on experience, but he is also completely befuddled and bedamned by an annoying little custom known as veteran preference. In many instances, veterans receiving an examination grade of 60 or better are placed at the head of the Civil Service list, while no other competitor can even pass his examination without a grade of at least 70. "Youth is blocked by the burden of the past, by old men and old ideas...
...indirect allusions and indirect defenses, he could restate the philosophy of his administration: 1) about the extension of Federal power (that prompted Republican charges of eventual dictatorship); 2) about spending (that prompted Wendell Willkie's charge of eventual bankruptcy). Dedicating his three schools (a high school and two grade schools near Hyde Park), he reaffirmed the meaning of education in a democracy: "In these schools of ours . . . the children of today and of future generations will be taught, without censorship or restriction, the facts of current history and the whole content of current knowledge...
...group included more than 1,000 grade-school pupils, averaging nine or ten years, and more than 250 high-school students, with a median age of 15. Jews ranked easily best, followed by children of old U. S. stock originally from New England or the Middle West...
...investigator blew up three fallacies: 1) that smart children tend to be frail; 2) that girls are smarter than boys; 3) that smart children are "onesided." Medical and anthropometric tests showed that Terman's group was healthier, and, in general, physiologically superior to the average. In the grade-school section the ratio of bright boys to bright girls was 6-to-5, in the high-school section 2-to-1. As a group the bright kids showed versatility in information and school activity...