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...extreme poverty, high proportion of home ownership, high proportion of youths over 16 in school, large per capita circulation of good magazines, widespread installation of gas and electricity, excess of doctors, nurses and teachers over male domestic servants. The resultant score he called GG-general goodness-not from the standpoint of sophistication or show, but from the standpoint of health and decency. Conceding that the good life is not the same for all men, Dr. Thorndike selected these criteria because he believed most men prefer to live in cities where babies' lives are saved, where schools are well provided...
Refusing to make public the GG ratings of specific cities until completion of his study, Dr. Thorndike did say suburban cities as a class ranked highest. At the top from the standpoint of per capita income were the Newtons, Boston suburbs, followed by Hartford, Conn.; Easton, Pa., and Cambridge, Mass. At the bottom in income were Augusta, Ga.; Evansville, Ind.; Kansas City, Kans.; Bay City, Mich.; Joplin, Mo.; and Camden...
...only unhappy feature of the day from a California standpoint," says the Times, "was Yale's surprising defeat by Harvard. It has been reliably reported before to-day's game that Berkeley authorities intended to send Yale the Rose Bowl bid this evening. But the Harvards spoiled all this...
...under which Cordell Hull has patiently woven a network of reciprocal trade treaties with 16 foreign countries, is that tariff concessions granted to any signatory country are automatically extended to 70-odd non-signatory countries with which the U. S. has "most-favored-nation" agreements. From the standpoint of Free Trader Hull, this is the strongest point of his policy since generalizing concessions tends to increase the volume of world trade. But it has given many a Hull critic an opportunity to argue that with U. S. tariff favors so lightly won the non-signatory nations of the world will...
...dispute of somebody they are not at all interested in, with the result that union officials have to hastily dig up enough grievances for everybody. ... It also is dangerous to the union because the worker is generally hard-headed enough to size up the dispute from his own standpoint and objects to losing time if he gains nothing thereby. . . The economic weapon, which in this case is placed in the hands of an individual wholly incapable of even figuring the extent of its magnitude or the possible result of a shutdown, makes, to my mind, the strongest argument for discipline...