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...growing market to be weaned away from them by enterprising Europeans, American merchants have further demonstrated their amazing indifference to the future. Years of neglect and misunderstanding have opened a chasm between the two American whose felicitous closing will require all the diplomatic skill at Mr. Hull's command...
...President Seton Porter of National Distillers Products Corp. took command of a hodge-podge of subsidiaries that made alcohol, yeast and maraschino cherries. He had a fair share of the dwindling medicinal liquor business and 9,000,000 gal. of fine old whiskey which belonged to people who had bought the warehouse receipts. He sold some of the subsidiaries, paid off $11,000,000 of debts, bought back most of his whiskey. But around his clubs when asked about his whiskey business, Seton Porter usually made a sour face, and did a quiet but extraordinarily able job of corporate management...
...American Federation of Labor has usually been able to command a majority of the House of Representatives. Its influence in the Senate is considerable. The announcement that the A. F. of L. would oppose unsound monetary policies cannot be construed, as is most of the opposition to the President's program, as being due to Wall Street influence...
There is, of course, a widespread use of the word "inflation" to cover various forms of credit expansion, but the issue of greenbacks or other money which is not backed by a metallic reserve is not likely to command a Congressional majority...
...than the excellence of its instruction in Latin and Greek. To preserve uniformity in the admission to A.B. candidacy, the Latin reading requirement should be retained. All A.B. candidates should also be examined upon entrance for a thorough knowledge of one modern language. As a further assurance that their command of a foreign language was not a surface acquirement whose liberal end would never be achieved, they should be required to pass at Harvard, a course in the literature of the modern language which they elected...