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This statistical finding appears in a book by Dr. Harlan Paul Douglass, 59, research director of the Institute of Social & Religious Research, Manhattan* issued last week by the Institute. The book is a thoroughgoing survey of church federations of 24 cities and two States. The federations had asked the Institute to inspect their condition. Dr. Douglass found their condition unsatisfactory. After more than 20 years activities there is a "general avoidance of any attempt to find a basic philosophical and religious ground-work" for the federation movement. As a rule worshippers are more willing than ministers to cooperate in federations...
...scrubwomen case as a separate issue officially came to a close last spring when the University authorities announced a thorough investigation of the whole employment problem. Until some report of this survey is made public, it is unlikely that any further publicity about the scrubwomen can contribute towards the solution of the basic issue involved...
...York. New York City's rackets and gunplay are easily in a class with Chicago's. But not until this month have Manhattan newspapers given local crime the publicity Chicago's press usually affords it. The New York Telegram, after a survey, reported that there had been 89 shootings in the city within one month. Aroused by this and other testimony, District Attorney Thomas C. T. Grain last week called a meeting of 50 such civic leaders as Owen D. Young, Seward Prosser, Thomas W. Lamont, John Davison Rockefeller Jr. Forty gentlemen attended, formed what newsmen likened...
Failure Figures. Survey of the actual events of the unhappy fortnight indeed indicated that the storm was more sensational than devastating. In hard-hit Arkansas, 64 banks either failed or invoked the State law allowing a five-day suspension. Deposits thus tied up were $35,804,000. But in all Arkansas, as of Dec. 31 last, there were 437 banks with deposits of over...
Theses are to be written on the following seven subjects: A critical survey of the political and economic aspects of the proposed federation of European states; an estimate of the value of the mandate system, disarmament including obstacles accomplishments and prospects; an economic program for the League of Nations designed to prevent world-wide economic depressions; harmonizing the League Covenant with the Pact of Paris; growth of international cooperation through the League of Nations; an evaluation of the effectiveness of the League of Nations as the guarantor of the rights of minorities...