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...shrewd work, according to his story last week, Wilson discovered that Mr. Legge, while chairman of the Farm Board, had not only bought huge stocks of wheat and cotton but also that "Legge stored these supplies in Atlantic ports, although this was more expensive than storage in interior depots...
...other monarch has a Cabinet predominantly composed of princes, his relatives. The Crown Prince of Siam is now Minister of Interior, has been Minister of Marine. No other Crown Prince holds Cabinet office, no other king is in effect his own Prime Minister...
Sumner R. Kilmarx, an interior decorator, was one of a jury which had been sitting for three weeks hearing dull testimony in a Manhattan corporation case. One morning he came to court carrying typewritten sheets, which he distributed to his confreres, to all the lawyers, and the judge. On the sheets was an original composition-a poem by Sumner R. Kilmarx entitled ''The Jurors' Lament." Excerpt: The Justice nods, the jurors yawn, The hours tick away. But still the lawyers argue, And the case drags on its way. We came here in the prime of life...
...pine bonfire crackled and shone one night last week at the railroad station of Tuskegee, Ala. With dark faces shining, 1,600 students of Tuskegee Institute cheered, hollered and sang Hallelujah as two special cars brought trustees, alumni & friends to celebrate Tuskegee's Golden Jubilee. Came Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur, Chairman William Jay Schieffelin of Tuskegee's board of trustees, Canon Anson Phelps Stokes of Washington Cathedral, Manhattan Banker Paul Moritz Warburg, and representatives of 24 Governors. President Hoover was to speak to them over the radio, on "Race Relations...
Educational institutions in the U. S. own and operate 51 of the 614 licensed broadcasting stations in the land. About the same number of institutions broadcast over commercial stations. Year ago an Advisory Committee on Education by Radio, appointed by Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur, reported that 15.2% of all the Nation's broadcasting "appeared" to have an educational purpose. One of the earliest to broadcast was the University of Iowa, which began in 1914, long before radio telephony was perfected. Now many an institution, mostly in the Middle and Far West, gives courses ranging from...