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...resort to no sly pocket vetoes. Instead he wrote upon 31 private bills: "disapproved and signature withheld, Franklin D. Roosevelt."* Two important measures he did sign: the Farm Bankruptcy Act and the Railroad Retirement Act, which, in future, will cost the railroads some $60,000,000 per year to pension off their 65-year-oldsters...
...quiet and persistent manner she will continue to improve her methods.'' His only major changes thus far have been an extension of the four-course plan by which high-ranking seniors will be freed from all course requirements in their last term, and an up-to-date pension and group insurance plan for his faculty. His announced objectives are a badly-needed new library building and more student scholarships. He is glad that two-fifths of Princeton's 2,500 students are earning part of their expenses and wants more poor but brainy students. Overshadowing all other...
Institution in London. He had been pained to discover that a portion of the Church pension fund came from $50,000 worth of Vickers, Ltd. stock. No less pained were other clerics the following day when the stock was ordered sold. Slender white-haired Douglas Vickers, director general of the firm that bears his name, was far too busy last week to pay attention to all this. Other arms tycoons have their hobbies: postage stamps, hybrid tea roses, Louis Seize furniture, after-dinner speeches about peace. Making money is the hobby of Director General Vickers, who is also a very...
...Borodin's music as vigorous, direct, heroic, with a true Russian flavor unblemished by oldtime Russian melancholy. Alexander Porfirievitch was a sane and optimistic artist. As the bastard son of a Prince of Imeretia he never had to worry for his livelihood. His father received a life-long pension after the Empire annexed his little kingdom in 1810. As a boy Alexander Porfirievitch played expertly on the piano, the cello, the flute. But he also showed a talent for medicine which his family regarded as a more respectable profession. He served two years in a military hospital, struggled with...
...With a pension from the Telegraph, Percy Bullen last week looked forward with relish to being able to "develop the lost art of thinking" on his Ossining, N. Y. farm...