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April 12, 1931

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BUSINESS MEN GAIN IN WAR ON IDLENESS; Chamber of Commerce Committee Finds Much Progress IsMade in the Nation.GREATER EFFORT NEEDEDCooperation Among Groups andCoordination of Sales andProduction the Keynote.MANY EXPERIMENTS TRIED Group Expects a Permanent Reduction of Unemployment Will BeBrought About. Business Men Try Plans. Find Striking Change of Thought. Manufacturers Make Progress. Adoption of Annual Budget. Limitations on All Devices. 300 New York Companies Act.

By Special to The New York Times

Amer Section repts business men making efforts to combat seasonal idleness

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$7,000,000 LIBRARY DEDICATED AT YALE; Dr. Angell Accepts the 16-Story Gothic Sterling Memorial as a "Temple of the Mind." HAILED AS AMONG GREATEST Structure for 3,000,000 Volumes Will Dominate for Ages,Notable Gathering Is Told.PURPOSE TERMED 'SERVICE' Dr. Putnam, Congress Librarian,Lauds Lack of Restrictions onthe $29,000,000 Sterling Gifts. Sixteen-Story Tower Dominates. Gifts Free of Restrictions Urged. $7,000,000 LIBRARY DEDICATED AT YALE

By Special to The New York Times

Presents keys to Sterling Memorial Library, Yale Univ, to Pres Angell in dedication ceremony

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EYE AND EAR IN EDUCATION

By Unknown Author

A thoroughgoing study is to be made of the value of the radio in education. The personnel of the committee undertaking it, and assured financial support, promise a result that will undoubtedly have great influence in determining how and to what extent this agency may be used in the school.

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Notable Births

Leonid Derbenyov

1931Leonid Derbenyov, Russian poet and songwriter (died 1995)[†]

Leonid Petrovich Derbenyov was a Russian poet and lyricist widely regarded as one of the stalwarts of the 20th century Soviet and Russian pop music.