Word: concernments
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...past few years has arisen the notion that something is wrong with the colleges. From the volume of literature that this notion has produced one might infer that everything was wrong with the colleges. There is apparently no reason for this sudden flux of collegiate concern, just as it is certain that there is no rhyme to it. Perhaps it has come because never before have the American institutions of professed higher learning been so popular. Perhaps popularity and excellence run by contraries...
...members of the Federal Radio Commission last week listened to these demands. They listened also to two other and similar demands-from Inter-City Radio Telegraph Co. of Cleveland for 50 stations, from Universal Wireless Communication Co. of Buffalo, a new concern, for 125 stations...
Avoiding personalities and outwardly ignoring the opposition seemed as well suited to the exigencies of the campaign as they were characteristic of the Hoover nature. In conducting a campaign of un- concern and inattention towards the Democrats, Nominee Hoover had no less a precedent than Calvin Coolidge, with whom he went to lunch as Nominee Smith was nearing Denver. What Nominee Smith said next, about the Hoover position on Water Power, might have shaken a less resolute nature. But only spokesmen replied. The Hoover silence on .Smith con- tinued and showed no sign of breaking...
...topmost. From presidency to presidency went Mr. Johns; from presidency to chairman of the board goes Mr. Barton. Known outside the advertising world for books on Christ and on the Bible, Mr. Barton has arrived at a position in which the actual details of advertising production need not much concern him. The actual production in Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborne, Inc., will be directed by Vice President Roy C. Durstine...
...Among the advertised products which the Batten company contributes to the combined concern are Armstrong Linoleum; Colgate products (including Rapid Shave Cream, Ribbon Dental Cream, Fab, Cashmere Bouquet Soap, Coleo Soap, Octagon Soap, Super Suds); Hamilton Watch, Walkover shoes, Edgeworth tobacco, McCallum hosiery, Prophylactic tooth brushes, United Fruit Co. bananas. From the Barton, Durstine-Osborne quota comes Alexander Hamilton correspondence school; Atwater Kent radios, Cluett Peabody Arrow Collars; Dorothy Gray toilet preparations; General Electric Co. products; General Motors (institutional-not the individual cars); Gillette razors; Oshkosh trunks; L. C. Smith and Corona typewriters; Triplex safety glass; Standard...