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...among 15,000 U. S. schools, the First Battalion. Whether or not the young gentlemen of Lawrenceville, where the Tennessee Shad once used beer for Welsh rabbits, were unanimously excited by Crusader Clark's earnest explanation of the need for repealing the 18th Amendment and for "strict control of the liquor traffic," the evening's results were 100%. Dr. Abbott formed the First Battalion by a method which should prove useful in other schools. He said that those boys who did not wish to join might leave the auditorium. All remained, signed cards, agreed...
When President Roosevelt was inaugurated the country's oilmen hastened at his call to assemble in Washington, make a report to him favoring strict proration. They expected to receive commands from the new chief. Instead the President sent telegrams to the Governors of oil States saying it was up to them to act. Result: anticlimax, nothing done. Last week with the oil industry worse off than in March, oilmen again looked to Washington. With chaos, caused by Texas, looming, Governors Murray of Oklahoma and Landon of Kansas met in Oklahoma City and sent emissaries to Washington to help draft...
...National Association of Manufacturers, protested that the bill would work vicious harm, upset industry, prevent recovery. The automobile business sent a sheaf of opposing telegrams, wires from Chevrolet, Chrysler, Hudson, Hupp. Not wholly isolated was Mr. Swope, however. Many opponents qualified their opposition, indicating that if the strict six-hour, five-day-and-no-more provision were made more flexible, they might feel differently. Henry Ford was reported in favor of the bill. Two other notable industrialists who favor the general idea include Lamont duPont, president of E. I. duPont de Nemours, which instituted a six-hour day in October...
...writing a great historical novel of the Russia in which his life has been passed. Two volumes called Bystander and The Magnet (TIME, April 14, 1930 & April 27, 1931) have appeared; Other Fires is the third, next to last. Proletarian novels (say strict Communists) must have no hero to stand between the reader and the hymning of mass achievements. But Gorki's epic novel has a hero, one Clim Samghin, who is the central character in all three books. Even strict Communists should not find him uncanonical, however, for Hero Samghin is no real hero but merely a convenient...
Evidently planned to cash in on the reputation of "Maedchen in Uniform," "Kadetten," the current German film at the Fine Arts, sets a bit of not-quite-nice love against the background of strict Prussian discipline of a military training school; but the result falls far short of the merit of its model...