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Labels on the pieces of wood, each neatly sawed off to exact, six-foot lengths, bore addresses to three different dormitories in Princeton, N. J. The attendant remarked, "The boys said that they were worth a good $35 apiece...
...market was ripe for bond flotations but the success of the Kidder, Peabody issue was due in large measure to the name the bonds bore: Scovill Manufacturing Co. of Waterbury, Conn., oldest and one of the largest brass companies in the U. S. It was not new financing; the last thing that rock-sound old Connecticut company needs is money...
...some Houses dinners are held at frequent intervals regardless of whether some notable either from within or without the University is to be present. Such dinners artificially inspired help in no way to foster the nebulous House solidarity and are definitely a bore to those not selected to sit with the high and mighty upon the raised platform. Since the Dining Halls are not opened until six-thirty overcrowding usually results and many disgruntled persons are forced to wait for their meal when they would much prefer to eat earlier. Per all House dinners it is sensible and more convenient...
Opposition to the Sinclair candidacy was focused on the plump, round-faced and by no means inspiring person of Republican Frank Finley Merriam. A small-bore, Iowa-born politician who was elected Lieutenant Governor in 1930, Frank Merriam of Long Beach became Acting Governor when "Sunny Jim" Rolph died last June. The San Francisco general strike and a shrewd stratagem won him his nomination for the coming election. Prior to the strike, onetime Governor Clement Calhoun Young had been assured Republican support by no less a faction than Herbert Hoover & friends. When big industrialists began to beseech Acting Governor Merriam...
...France the peasants stacked up their heavy baskets, shook the powdery blue-green Bordeaux mixture from their smocks and thanked le bon Dieu that what showed every prospect of being the greatest vintage since unforgettable 1893 had come to an end. Chemists and agricultural experts bore them out. All over France, in the Champagne, Bordeaux and Burgundy districts, weather has been ideal for the vine this summer. There was little hail, and the drought that burned up wheat crops only made deep-rooted grapes the sweeter. Analyses of the green wine have already sent prices soaring, but production all over...