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...vague, and remain vague, as to their ultimate aims are at a loss when they graduate for employment: but the knowledge that the university is orientated towards the learned professions to a large extent has a selective function. The high, school boy to make a rash generalization only turns to the university for the specialized purposes for which it is known to exist; if they do not suit him he goes straight into business or to a business school instead, for only for a small minority does college follow the high school in England. The result for the university...
About 215 stations use this sanctified service, but many an independent wants more. Their rebellion this year bred a rash of news agencies, designed to furnish broadcasters with all the news they wanted. Most of them were tiny enterprises which soon vanished. By last week the most important left in the field was Transradio Press Service...
...East Texas that tumbled the price of crude oil to 10? per bbl. in 1931. It was East Texas that made President Roosevelt put the oil industry under the Secretary of the Interior. And it was East Texas that incited the gasoline price wars which broke out like a rash all over the land last week. They are pumping oil in East Texas now instead of just piping it off but that paradise of the little fellow is merrily producing at least 100,000 bbl. of oil daily in excess of all allotments- all "hot"' oil. The retail price...
HENRY FOR HUGH-Ford Madox Ford -Lippincott ($2.50). Sequel to The Rash Act; Author Ford considers it "the best piece of work I have yet done." THE DEATH AND BIRTH OF DAVID MARKAND - Waldo Frank - Scribner ($2.75). The latest of Prophet Frank's novels of "mystical realism," this is less interesting as a novel than as prophecy- a symbolic tale of how a contemporary U. S. businessman cast off the old Republican Adam, found himself. REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST-Marcel Proust-Random House ($12.50). Proustians will want this four-volume edition of the late great Proust's magnum...
Concordia-a pleasant name for any town. It sounded particularly pleasant to utility men last week, worried night & day as they are about where the rash of public ownership will next break out on the body politic. Missouri Public Service Co. has a power plant at Concordia, Mo. The city fathers applied for a PWA loan-grant to build a municipal plant. In a Kansas City Federal court the private power company promptly prayed for an injunction, ordering the town government to desist and refrain from its purpose...