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...what Sir John beamingly called a "novel plan," the report was split into two sections: 1) "History" and 2) "Recommendations" of which only the former was issued last week. Although a "best seller" and Conservative to the core, it drew from the arch-Conservative Morning. Post a comment which rather let the cat out of the bag: "This survey is so carefully balanced and so judicially vague that it is difficult to see to what it leads...
...incoming president of the American Nurses' Association, suggested to their convention in Milwaukee that any patient who could not afford that much and yet did not want cheap ward nursing, might put himself under one nurse's care with two or three other patients, who could split her charges. Some hospitals now have such small-group nursing...
...formation of many investment trusts none were more spectacular than Goldman, Sachs Trading Corp., Shenandoah and Blue Ridge, all Goldman, Sachs sponsored and all contributing to Mr. Catchings' reputation as a brilliant and rising man. Trading Corp. stock, issued in December 1928 at 104, opened at 109, shortly split two for one, and in August 1929 was selling at 116. Shenandoah was launched in July 1929 by the sale of one million shares of common priced at 17 which soon sold up to 42, and one million shares of preferred at 50 which sold up to 60. The third member...
...Island, 54 the size of Connecticut, six the size of New York. Texas is four times bigger than the combined New England States. . . . With an estimated population of 5,600,000 Texas ranks fifth among the States, being exceeded only by New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois and Ohio. ..." Such a split-up of Texas into five States the size of Arkansas fired Mr. Garner's political imagination. He foresaw an East Texas, West Texas, North Texas, South Texas and just plain Texas in the middle. New State capitals would blossom on the mesa. Political jobs would increase fourfold. Every...
...Cause. No doctrinaire Socialist, Debs participated in the rise of the "cooperative commonwealth" theory in the U. S., saw Socialism split and divide again and again. With each group he would lose patience and move leftward. The Knights of Labor were too idealistic for him, too nonmilitant. The A. F. of L. (''Unionism pure and simple") was too non-political under Samuel Gompers. The railway brotherhoods, opposed to strikes, sought too hard to become "respectable." The Industrial Workers of the World gave promise of a big rival union until it be came an organization of bums addicted to sabotage. Debs...