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...determine the general attitude on this problem, a questionnaire was distributed last year to the student waiters in the Union and the Business School. To the query, "Have you noticed any tendency on the part of the students who are being waited on to regard the waiters as interior?", ninety-three out of the one hundred and forty-seven answers were in the negative; of the fifty-four that replied in the affirmative, twenty-one declared that they were considered thus inferior only by certain individuals. Further evidence, relating to the lack of social distinction and the success...
...technical crew. The fur-trader is Peter Freuchen, who wrote the book on which Eskimo is based. Van Dyke himself is a police inspector. When he came back to Hollywood last spring with 600,000 feet of film, Director Van Dyke brought along a dozen Eskimos for interior sequences. They endured Hollywood for six months, hurried North when their supply of canned reindeer meat gave...
...three prizemen is Dr. Erwin Schrodinger, 46, who shares this year's award with Dr. Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac. Dr. Dirac is only 31, as is Dr. Werner Heisenberg, to whom went the belated 1932 award.* All three have been busy prying into the unimaginably small interior of the atom...
Andrew William Mellon was the Cabinet hero of the Harding-Coolidge-Hoover era William Hartman Woodin, cheery but inactive, has not yet qualified for a similar role in the Roosevelt era. Nor have the new heads of the State, Justice, War, Navy Agriculture, Commerce or Interior departments yet achieved historic stature. The first woman Secretary of Labor, Frances Perkins (Wilson) has been receiving quiet plaudits ever since her first hour in office as the most human, humane and intelligent incumbent since her post was founded in 1913. But the first phrase of praise with resonance for the ages was bestowed...
...under heavy pressure. While the Recovery program hoists tariffs and embargoes, he is to be shipped to South America to try to make trade treaties. Madam Secretary of Labor Perkins keeps her department serene but Agriculture under Secretary Wallace and his colleague AAAdministrator Peek is restive. So are the Interior and Public Works offices under Mr. Ickes, sweating to put Federal billions to work. There are many cross-assignments, touching the Treasury's work. A switch of last week in the Home Loan Bank Board, stepping Vice Chairman John H. Fahey up to replace William Francis ("Steamboat Bill") Stevenson...