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...announcing the order, Chairman Knutson (R-Minn) of the House Ways and Means Committee told reporters that if Congress falls to slash $6,000,000,000 from President Truman's $37,500,000,000 budget, "it will kill any idea of a 20 percent (income...
Coming after the Student Council ratification of the new Constitution on the basis of a 90 percent approval of the new document in the recent House referendums, next week's nomination and subsequent elections represent the transition stage between the old and new systems. House elections will take place during the first week of March...
Professor James Palmer, of the Newton School Committee, cited comparative figures to prove that the U. S. neglects its teachers. Great Britain, according to Palmer, spends over 30 percent more on education than the U. S., and the U.S.S.R. allocates an annual figure of seven and one half billion dollars to educators' salaries compared to two and one half billion...
...select outstanding graduates of secondary schools for these prizes, regardless of the financial capabilities of the scholar's family. Unquestionably the College has benefited greatly from this infusion of rich intellectual talent and leadership. At the same time it is vital to note that of these Scholars, some 20 percent were taken from families whose incomes were above $5000, and 40 percent from an income bracket over $4000. Since there is no questioning the Committee's sincerity in choosing the most promising candidates, and even less validity in a claim that the lower income groups are incapable of producing...
...border lines, could easily gain majority control of most of the country's area. This would, in effect, mean British control. Certainly the permitted entry of 100,000 Jews every two years would hardly meet Jewish DP needs in Europe. (Last week, General McNarney stated that "without question, 95 percent of Jewish DPs in Europe want to go only to Palestine...