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Drift. But during the three Hoover years a Wet drift, slow & steady, has set in. The Wet East's dissatisfaction with Prohibition was manifest in the 1930 Congressional elections. This year the Wet vote in the House reached an all-time Prohibition peak of 187. The G. O. P. in New Jersey, Illinois and Vermont last month plumped for resubmission or repeal. A Literary Digest poll showed preponderant wet sentiment in every State except Kansas and North Carolina. And last week John Davison Rockefeller Jr., who with his father has given $350,000 to the Anti-Saloon League, wrote...
...peak of literary knowledge," reported Carnegie, "both of words and of books, is apparently reached in the freshman year; 53% of the college seniors tested in English literature and vocabulary stood lower than the median freshman. . . . Mathematics exhibits a consistent backward movement. . . . The sophomore group has the advantage in the intelligence scores. ... In general science 39% of the freshmen did better than the median senior; in foreign literature about 24%; in fine arts 36%; in general history 38%. In the test as a whole 30% of the seniors were below the freshman median, while about the same proportion of freshmen...
Airline passenger traffic rises to a peak around Labor Day. To capitalize this bulge most companies inaugurate new schedules, speed up old with the coming of warm weather. Last month American Airways by a one-hour shift in a plane departure at Cleveland so bettered connections with Pan American that the New York-Mexico City run was cut from 62 to 44 hr. United Airlines last fortnight put on a new plane to San Francisco which entails the loss of only one business day, announced that before the year ended it would cut the coast-to-coast...
Mount Collalto, key position of the battle front, is held by Austrian troops. The Italians capture the Austrian town at the base of the mountain, but their many attacks upon and bombardments of the peak are futile. Without its capture they are powerless to advance. In desperation they undertake to bore under the peak to dynamite it. The defending Austrians learn of the Italian strategy but dare not relinquish their position. They listen to the sound of the drilling beneath them, not knowing when they will be blown to bits. Florian (Luis Trenker) is an Austrian soldier, a native...
...business from the late Oliver Ditson, he founded a firm with the late Songwriter Paul Dresser ("On the Banks of the Wabash," which they published), brother of Novelist Theodore Herman Dreiser. During his life Publisher Haviland sold over ten million copies of songs in the U. S.; at the peak of his business he sold them at the rate of $45,000 a month. A best seller was "The Sidewalks of New York," shrewdly revived for Alfred Emanuel Smith's 1928 campaign...