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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Because this item was widely used, members of the Association were happy. No association of doctors or fussy housekeepers, the Soap Association is composed of powerful soap manufacturers who control about 80% of U. S. production, whose publicizing subsidiary, Cleanliness Institute, during the past three years contributed $3,000,000 for "information useful to the public," laboratory work and market study. Its executives represent such soap makers as Procter & Gamble. Colgate-Palmolive-Peet, Armour & Co., Lever Bros. In no way is the Association a monopoly, for its members compete hotly for the business brought them by this method of collective...
...last week's stockmarket plunked to the bottom President Hoover let his Secretary of the Treasury, Andrew William Mellon, make an announcement which the President had been saving up as the Big-News-Item for his own first message to Congress next month, an announcement of immediate tax reduction...
...recommendation to the Student Council that Freshmen winning minor sports numerals be awarded with single type unqualified insignia similar to the minor sports "H", was the chief item of business transacted at the first meeting of the Minor Sports Council last night. The council, which is a subsidiary of the Student Council and which is composed of the captains and managers of the minor sports teams elected Richard Chandler Aldrich '31 as president and Phillips Finlay '31 as secretary of the organization...
...alienists in place of a jury system has at least the ultramodern touch; the alleviation of fines to suit the individual income of the prisoner though departing from the stern unswerving rigors of the usual courts of justice, seems in line with proper social ethics; whereas the last important item, the establishment of a federal committee to assist ex-convicts in social re-adjustment, judging from the recent criminal survey of Dr. Glueck, is a really national necessity in this country. Whether these interesting elements will prove to be a substantial legal code is open to conjecture. At least...
...another Goethals." General Edgar Jadwin, Chief of Engineers, retired on Aug. 7. On his successor devolves the duty of carrying out the Mississippi flood relief project which the President rates in importance if not in difficulty above the building of the Panama Canal. Flood Control is but one item on the inland waterways program...