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...take a two-year leave from her duties as an Elmira, N. Y., high-school mathematics teacher because she was expecting a baby. Two months after her blue-eyed son was born, she unsuccessfully demanded to be put back to work. Although she is now teaching in a grade school, her lawyer husband Anthony has carried through the New York courts a suit for the pay she would have earned during her compulsory leave. Last week he carried it for the second time to the U. S. Supreme Court, which again refused him a rehearing...
...leeway for passing in work ordinarily done at preparatory school is two years, and the pass-word is a C in one of the adequate courses or a good grade for an exam given three times a year. Thus for two years the axe of probation is sheathed while the student is presumed to be taking the courses he needs. If there is another year of grace given and if the student's work fails to pass the exam a third time, he must clutter up his Senior year with an elementary language. If there are to be language requirements...
...Washington's Birthday, 1918, weighed only 8½ lb. at birth. He began to grow fast at once. At six months he weighed 30 Ib. Year later he weighed as much as a normal six-year-old boy. When he was six years old and in the first grade he had to put on long pants because the biggest boys' suits (size 17) were too small...
...bankers on distinctly smalltime money matters. Releasing his 1936 report, Mr. Crowley lit into the members of FDIC for dabbling in speculative bonds. Warned the man who has underwritten 14,000 banks: "Low earnings are making some banks reach out and deal in more or less low-grade bonds. They are in and out of the bond market, as you or I would be in or out if we were dealing in the stockmarket...
...President sent a report of his National Resources Committee with a message urging adoption of its six-year, $5,000,000.000 program of coordinated public works. The Committee specified 10,000 projects-street, highway, irrigation, drainage, flood control, building & equipment, slum clearance, sewage, recreation, forestry, game protection, pest control, grade crossing elimination, navigation aid-some to be undertaken at once, some to be investigated and held in, reserve for the Next Depression. As a further Flood Relief measure the President proclaimed an emergency under the tariff laws permitting the importation duty free of relief supplies sent...