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...aggressive management were the secrets of her continued dominance in the manufacturing field. But since the opening of the century, the South has begun to establish its own mills. Cheap labor, plentiful coal, and proximity to the sources of raw material give it insuperable advantages over the northern area. Under such conditions the frantic speeches of Gov. Curley and the curses heaped on the head of the innocuously innocent Wallace might cause an impartial visitor from Mars to wonder at the sanity of the northern leaders...
...calm, dark evenings of high humidity, observers may occasionally see hundreds of fireflies scattered over a considerable area, all flashing in unison. The phenomenon has aroused such interest that since 1916 no less than 19 accounts of it have been printed in Science. Fortnight ago a 20th communication was published by John Bonner Buck of Johns Hopkins' Zoological Laboratory. Mr. Buck said he had induced synchronized flashing in fireflies with an electric torch, was thus able to shed new light on the reason for its natural occurrence...
...necessity of finding new revenue to balance athletic budgets, Princeton has brought forth a plan to put crew on a semi-paying basis. Asa S. Bushnell, graduate manager, has announced that the Carnegie Lake course will be reversed and a grandstand erected at the finish. A large area of open meadow, which will be roped off, is expected to yield substantial income...
...until 2 a. m. that he was discovered in his widowed mother's apartment. He was hastily taken to a police station house, exhibited and photographed to prove that he had not been harmed, then sent home. Following evening Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia circulated thousands of posters throughout the area urging the responsible element in Harlem to make the rest of the neighborhood behave itself. By next day Governor Lehman could tell Harlem's white merchants that the city authorities had the situation well in hand...
...possible, newsboys be prohibited from selling their wares on Massachusetts Avenue from Dunster Street to Plympton Street, so that those engaged in research and scholastic pursuits in Holyoke and Little would be protected from such "public enemies." If they could not be kept out of this area, they could at least be made to keep moving...