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...motherhouse at Cornwells Heights near Philadelphia. The Sisterhood's motto: "God's greatest work on earth is man. Man's master art is the leading of man to God." There are now 320 sisters. 41 foundations in 18 States. But Indians were not their only concern. Mother Katharine Drexel looked out from her cloister upon what she called "America's tenth man," and resolved upon a campaign for the education and conversion of the nation's 12,000,000 Negroes. Among her many foundations were an industrial school for Negro girls at Nashville, Tenn...
Prime-movers for the committee were savings banks, insurance companies and Yale, Harvard, Columbia and Chicago universities. Their joint letter of invitation to the committee members said: "The present financial position of the railroads of the United States is a matter of grave concern. . . . Only wise and timely Federal aid has averted the financial break-down of important systems. This situation touches every citizen. . . . The relief that the present emergency has made it necessary to grant to the railroads is a drain on the Federal Treasury and any ultimate loss will constitute a burden on every taxpayer. The present deplorable...
...This League of Nations," the Emperor begins, "is in itself contradictory nonsense and is absolutely worthless! The so-called 'League of Nations' is in reality only a concern composed of those nations who rushed at Germany in criminal onslaught like a band of highway robbers at a traveller...
Samuel Insull in Paris last week, adding that his chief present concern is Mrs. Insull's health...
...Remainder. Sandy-haired Floyd Bostwick Odium, who does not like to be called freckled, went angling again last week with his fast-growing Atlas Corp. He offered Atlas shares in exchange for notes in Pick Barth Holding Corp., onetime big investor in Albert Pick & Co., a leading kitchen equipment concern. The offer was not made because Mr. Odium wanted Atlas to invest in the kitchen business, but because Pick Barth Holding will probably be reorganized, hence its noteholders will control 500,000 shares of Goldman Sachs Trading Corp.. biggest of assets left in Pick Earth's treasury...