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...Secretary of the Treasury, particularly, "the greatest Secretary of the Treasury since Alexander Hamilton, cannot afford to indulge in wishful thinking. Financiers were inclined, last week, to be instructed, rather than startled by what financial writers called Secretary Mellon's "bold" plan for refinancing the Third Liberty Loan which matures in September. With the money market hitting its highest since 1920 Secretary Mellon offered to exchange 3⅛% bonds for the 4¼% Third Liberty Bonds, which mature in September. He gave the new bonds a life of 12 to 15 years. Like most Government securities, they were only...
...relation to other children and to adults, and his introduction to language and rhythm. She explains now the nursery goes about its attempt to scale civilization down to the child level in its behavior demands and to open up wider opportunities for alive exploration than an adult world call afford...
...Howard Means (Boston), Thomas Ordway (Albany), E. H. Heath Jr. (Baltimore), reported spectacular improvements in pernicious anemia patients on liver diets. But publicity means popularity. Healthy people are stuffing themselves with liver. Canny wholesalers profiteer. Many a poor pernicious anemiac, for whom liver meant lustier living, can no longer afford to buy it. Dr. W. S. Middleton emphasized the fact that patients must keep on eating liver to prevent relapse; deplored its present high priced popularity...
...Princeton club is interesting in its tentative recommendations, which are elsewhere printed on this page. The assisement which has preceded them is notable for its more than superficial resemblance to the similar evaluations made by the Harvard Student Council. The assets are: (1) The clubs at present afford the only solution for feeding the upperclassmen. (2) Social advantages (3) Their innocuous position in student politics and activities; the liabilities are: (1) Failure to feed the 25 percent who are not elected. (2) Irresponsibility in matters of expense (3) Loss of time during the period of bidding (4) Cliques of preparatory...
...court, he loved his wife and desired her return. To this horrid conundrum, Judge Sabath had a neat answer. He gave Mrs. Johnson an injunction to prevent Mr. Johnson from annoying her; to Mr. Johnson he gave permission to send his wife all the candy and flowers he could afford to buy. Next month, if this arrangement does not result in reconciliation, Mrs. Johnson will bring her suit to court...