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...last three years Mr. Williams has led an interesting life in investigating current labor and employment problems. As vice-president of a steel company, he arranged with the board of directors to get a leave of six months. Taking only $25 in his pocket he started off to get a job in order to actually catch the point of view of the unemployed laborer. In his study he found so many interesting situations that he has extended the period...
Alfred Emanuel Smith, though he had said he was no active candidate, waved his four-year-old Brown Derby vigorously at his enchanted friends. Plain, blunt John Nance Garner stuck ostentatiously to his Speakership. Governor William Henry ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray with Oklahoma's 22 votes in his pocket stumped the Mid-West with violence and passion. Maryland's Governor Albert Cabell Ritchie charmed well-bred audiences while hoping for a convention deadlock to make him the lucky compromise candidate. Newton Diehl Baker went about his private business as if he had never heard of the Presidency...
...beds that tilted and slid a sleeper gently into a warm, perfumed bath, while violins played. . . . Critics agreed that Author Fitzgerald had imagination; many a college youth dreamed of finding a huge diamond. Last week Bill Paley sailed for the Bahamas with a $10,000,000 diamond in his pocket...
...William Paley. He offered to buy Paramount's half-interest for $5,200,000. Paramount hastened to accept, bought back its 48,000 shares, had more than $1,000,000 left over. Bill Paley had his whole diamond, now grown to Ritzian proportions. He put it in his pocket, sailed for Nassau and a rest...
Published oy a subsidiary corporation of The Parents' Magazine, the new sheet is pocket-size, concisely written. Unlike other educational magazines it deals not with the theories of pedagogy but with the practical mechanics of school life-the choice of teachers, health room designs, classroom cinemas, luncheon menus, budgets, proper desks, textbook purchases et al. Like some 225 other U. S. publications, it has a "controlled circulation," will be sent gratis, every month except July and August, to 50,000 school superintendents, principals, architects. All others must subscribe at $2 per year. School Management, unlike most educational magazines, pays...