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...North Atlantic, which it has been asserted, have no value except in the unlikely event of war. Let the government turn the island over to Mrs. Peabody, and guarantee to keep it barren. There Mrs. Peabody, and for good measure the lame duck dries in Congress, can maintain unhampered their ideal regime, the Sahara of the Boozart...
Under the present arrangement lost books are replaced only at the request of a member of the faculty. The officials maintain that all essential books will sooner or later be called for by instructors and that students who really want certain books will prevail upon their instructors to go to the trouble of having them ordered. Such naive beliefs would be surprising in any but those who must spend an undue amount of time threading the mazes of Widener...
Speech Attacked. Wrathful Laborites saw, of course, that what the Cabinet meant by George V's reference to "assistance . . . designed to maintain . . . morale and fitness to resume work." was to express the National Government's resolve to maintain the "means test" and other checks on the British Dole...
...years ago by William Bernard Ziff, now 34. Starting with the Chicago Defender he built up a large clientele of Negro publications whose efforts to solicit national advertising are hampered by "Jim Crow" rules in some Southern office buildings, tacit prejudice elsewhere. Most Negro newspapers are too indigent to maintain traveling representatives. One of Adman Ziff's first tasks was to persuade Negro publishers to audit their circulations accurately. In some cases he paid for the auditing himself...
Traditionally U. S. doctors, like U. S. farmers, are pugnaciously individualistic. Their practice has been on a personal doctor-&-patient basis. To maintain this, doctors have banded themselves into one of the most powerful and beneficial institutions on the U. S. scene-The American Medical Association. But the A. M. A. has been unable to prevent inequalities in the distribution of medical services to the entire population or of payments to all the doctors. Complaints have alarmed both doctors and sociologists...