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...works for the sole purpose of "creating" employment is liable to lead to the flagrant waste of public funds. In Germany where public money appropriated to increase employment was expended on parks and elaborate housing improvements instead of on other things which were much more essential to a war-ridden, debt-burdened country, there is a striking example of this misdirection of public wealth. It is a truism in economics that such schemes as that proposed by the Democratic Committee of the Senate for the undertaking of public enterprises in reality do not "create" work. For the money which...
Driven a team of horses. Swung in a "swingboat" at a fair. Ridden pillion on a motorcycle. Witnessed either the Oxford-Cambridge boat race or the Lord Mayor's Show...
...recalled, however, having ridden in a switchback at Wembley Fair in 1924 with her brother-in-law, Edward of Wales, who mischievously calls her "Queen Elizabeth."* News of the Duchess' "confession" was bracketed in British papers with this ultrasafe revelation: His Majesty the King-Emperor still reads and rereads Dickens, Thackeray and Trollope, has lately been dipping into Conrad...
Last week the Illinois Supreme Court went to the rescue of debt-ridden Cook County by reversing the lower court's decision in the Cisar case and reinstating the 1928-29 assessments. Mrs. Cisar would have to pay her $544 in back taxes. So would all other delinquents who owed the county and city a total of $71,257,098, not counting $10,505,649 in penalties. The strike leaders talked of taking their fight to the U. S. Supreme Court. But if they did and lost, they would be penalized 1% per month for their delinquencies...
...York's prodigious crash-bang-rattle-screech, in the estimation of Health Commissioner Shirley Wilmott Wynne, engenders juvenile neuroses. The city's Noise Abatement Commission has found classrooms in nearly one-third of the public schools so din-ridden as to be virtually useless. In its researches the Commission (which does no actual abating but carries on investigations of noise) uses the "decibel," which measures differences between sounds and absolute silence. One decibel represents a sound just audible. Ten decibels make one "bel" (named for the late Inventor Alexander Graham Bell), which represents roughly the amount of sound...