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Anglophobia at Moscow, capital of Soviet Russia, received yet another boost from the Marquis Curzon, British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs...
...around the globe. Lieut. R. L. Maugham, will pilot the Curtiss Army plane-speed record of 245 miles per hour-across the continent in a daylight flight. But more solid significance is attached to the coast-to-coast flight than introduction to further records. It means a tremendous boost for the Air Mail plan of continuous service between New York and San Francisco. It points to the entire feasibility of commercial air lines across the continent. Ultimately no business house will be able to afford any mail but air mail; no business man any travel but air travel...
...political enemies, too, has had to take its share of the blame. Says Representative King (Rep.) of Illinois: "The present high price of sugar is due almost entirely to financing of speculators through the Federal Reserve System. This financing enabled the speculators to hold sugar off the market and boost the price...
When I was in college seventy years ago, I was taught that labor is a commodity to be sold in the highest market and bought in the cheapest market; that the law of supply and demand would regulate the price of labor. In fact the laborers have united to boost prices of labor and the capitalists have united to keep the prices of labor down and the result is a disastrous labor...
...done in the communication in the following day. The writer assumed that it was the desire of Harvard to quench this "detrimental resentment." Therefore he suggested as a quenching agent the remodeling, or we might say, the cospomolization of the existing society. The recent communication under the heading "A Boost for Back Bay" suggests the impossibility of changing the existing order of things. Then my answer is, "do not puzzle over why Harvard fails to attract westerners". We must choose between two alternatives, a national representation in the College, or the present social order: which brings me to the point...