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Juggling figures lightly, Secretary Hyde showed that, on the basis of the U. S. Forest Service, a million men could care for an area twelve times the size of the U. S. To acquire title to cut-over and abandoned land on any such scale would, he insisted, "disorganize counties, destroy taxation units, close schools and roads . . . throw more people out of their homes than the New York Governor could employ." According to Secretary Hyde the Roosevelt plan would cost $2,000,000,000, provide work for only 27,900 and break the market on forest products to "Nothing flat...
...Scythia slid into New York Harbor last week, coal companies perked up, oil companies were cast down and a dead inventor was remembered. Instead of oil, a black turbid liquid had been pouring through one set of her fuel pipes, burning with sudden fierceness when it reached the combustion area under the boiler. First commercial company ever to use colloidal fuel, the Cunard Line last week called its experiment a complete success. Ignored for eleven years, colloidal fuel was news at last...
Riots were biggest and worst in Greater Berlin, most extensive city on the European Continent (area 348 sq. mi.). While unconcerned tourists strolled Unter den Linden, the northwest suburbs of Berlin became a welter of knifing, bludgeoning and wild shots. Communists, defending their homes, ripped up paving stones, barricaded streets, stuffed their barricades with mattresses. The leader of a Fascist charge was shot dead as he went over the Red top. Police, clubbing furiously, no sooner restored order in one street than rioting broke out in the next...
Twenty-six commissions and four certificates will be presented to the graduating class of the R. O. T. C. in Room 1, Harvard Hall, at 11 o'clock Monday morning by Brigadier-General Alston Hamilton, representing the Corps Area commander, who is unable to attend on account of illness...
Allegheny College (Meadville, Pa.) Ezra Squier Tipple, honorary president of Drew University ....... L.H.D. Andrew Wells Robertson, board chairman, Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co ....... LL.D. Herbert Welch. Methodist Bishop of Pittsburgh Area ...... LL.D...