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...North American subsidiary, Cleveland Electric Illuminating Co., received high praise from Judson Dickerman, Commission examiner. This Ohio company was called a "model concern which conforms to the best ideal of public regulations." Its rates (5? per kilowatt hr.) are low, its securities well secured, its management efficient, its service high-grade. Examiner Dickerman pointed out, however, as one possible reason for the Cleveland company's excellent record, the fact that it operates in competition with a municipal power plant which charges a nominal rate of 3? per kilowatt...
...presenting the material about the two famous Englishmen, Dr. Davison wasted no time with lengthy and wordy dissertations on the technical intricacies of the music, and avoided any internal analysis of the origin and influences on Gilbert's compositions, which although of interest to the academician, are of minor concern to the average person interested in music...
...subsequent unpopularity by editing the pro-German Fatherland. In this book he quotes the characteristic compliment bestowed on him by the late Col. Henry Watterson's Louisville Courier- Journal: "A venom-bloated toad of treason." But politics and patriotism have never been Author Viereck's whole concern. In this "lyric autobiography," heavily humorless, egregiously egotistic, he tells everything anybody could possibly want to know about George Sylvester Viereck's life and loves. The book's scheme is simple, must have been fun for the author. It consists of alternating Viereck verse and Viereck prose, chronologically arranged...
...question is clear enough. Higher education in America is not very high. Out the colleges to make intellectual development their chief concern? Can a university serve the community best by insisting on the paramount importance of mental education...
...Printers' Ink, advertising men's weekly, John Lawrence Johnston, banker-president of Lambert Pharmacal Co., makers of Listerine, told how advertising had made his company successful. In 1920 the Lambert Company spent practically nothing for advertising. Its year's earnings were $115.000. Last year the concern spent approximately $5,000,000 for advertising. Its year's profit...