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...Flying Club has been made the Cambridge agent for the Photographic Department of Skyways, Inc. During the fall this concern has been taking pictures of Harvard College the Yard and Soldiers Field from the air, and some excellent views have been obtained. These pictures will probably be on display at the Coop this week or next...
Loudest of the gadflies is Blanton of Texas. His dearest concern is the government of the District of Columbia to which the House turns its attention on alternate Mondays. Mr. Blanton demands roll and quorum calls, makes booming points of order, inveighs lengthily on small grievances. He serves the purpose of keeping something from being "put over" (his pet phrase) on the House. He is now a lame gadfly, however, having run third to Mayfield and Connolly for the Senate. His departure after March will not be regretted by the general membership...
Speculation in securities and agricultural products was causing several Governors deep concern. Alabama's Graves observed that speculative loans "right now" exceeded what had been loaned to planters to produce the next cotton crop. He viewed with alarm the Federal Reserve effort to discourage market gambling by jacking up interest Crates because the effect of this policy is to make borrowing injuriously expensive for "legitimate business." "There is nothing wrong with America except the evils of mad gambling in stocks and cotton," announced Governor Graves. Iowa's Hamill and Nebraska's McMullen (chairman of the conference) agreed...
...most striking gesture of labor was made outside the A. F. of L. convention. Also in New Orleans met delegates of newly-formed Labor Association, the American Wage-Earners protective conference representing 17 international unions with 250,000 members. The venerable bugaboo of tariff was their concern. They contended that present tariff rates were flooding the country with imported merchandise, that thousands of U. S. laborers were therefore out of work. This claim naturally hinged on statistics. There was a fat volume of them, gathered quietly in Manhattan during the past six months. Figures showing the increase of imported wares...
...course, they made money. In 1915, three years after Wilbur Wright's death, Orville sold his patents to the Wright Aeronautical Corp. It is a $7,000,000 concern...