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...Franklin Roosevelt's sub-Cabinet last week a long-vacant place was filled, a long-filled place was vacated. For nearly twelve months since T. Jefferson Coolidge resigned because he disliked the New Deal's mounting debts, the job of Under Secretary of the Treasury had been vacant. Last week, giving up futile efforts to find for the job an expert in the technique of floating Government bonds who had no connection with Wall Street, the President sent to the Senate the name Roswell Foster Magill. Not a bond expert but a tax expert...
Plenty of cattlemen present remembered the tough old days. Past President Charles E. Collins, who has been in the saddle for 50 years and still rides his 50,000 Colorado acres in sub-zero weather, could recall the time when nothing except long-horn cattle roamed the range. And presented to the convention was Rev. L. R. Millican, 84, a wrinkled, white-thatched Baptist circuit-rider who as a boy knew General Sam Houston, father of Texas independence...
...years ago Congress overwhelmingly rejected the Fess and Wagner-Hatfield bills calling for a definite allocation of wave bands for educational purposes. Last week more cold water was thrown on that hope when Chief Engineer T. A. M. Craven of the Federal Communications Commission flatly told an engineers' sub-committee of the Conference: "In talking with some educational experts, I find that they envision a future requirement of something in the order of 15,000 stations to serve the 127,000 school districts in this country alone. . . . The present radio spectrum from ten to 30,000 kilocycles would...
...Harold J. Coolidge, Jr. '27, Assistant Curater of Mammals of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, the project marks the first time that a group of qualified primate specialists has ever visited Asia for intensive cooperative research on gibbons, orangutans, and other important sub-human primates...
...than-air pleadings were on the point of taking effect. At Washington, for several weeks, he had been advising a subcommittee of three from the Business Advisory Council of the Department of Commerce, appointed last summer at the suggestion of Secretary of Commerce Daniel C. Roper.* Last week the sub-committee submitted a report to Assistant Secretary of Commerce John Monroe Johnson, suggesting: along with many a lesser recommendation, 1) that the U. S. build one large airship for Naval use, two for transatlantic passenger service; 2) that the Merchant Marine Act of 1936 be made applicable to airships...