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...aircraft is unceasing. Sir Samuel Hoare, Air Secretary, who is undertaking a Continental tour of inspection of aerodromes and airways, will travel wholly by air and familiarize himself with many types of commercial planes. The Hambling report is being acted upon by the House of Commons and will establish what is now popularly known as the " Million Pound Monopoly "-a national flying service between England and the Continent with this amount of capital, all other lines being deprived of their subsidies. A House of Commons Committee is also examining a serious proposal for air mail service from London to Halifax...
...turned down because of the peculiar circumstances arising from war conditions, but that action should in no way serve as a precedent for the settlement of this question, except in that making the decision in 1915, the Board then assumed that the Reserve Banks had a perfect right to establish branches. At that time the sole factor considered was expediency, and there is no reason, as some people have believed, for now questioning the legality of Reserve Bank branches in foreign countries...
...raised to the House of Lords for services to the Empire. He is a self-made man who joined the staff of the Montreal Gazette at the age of 18, and at 21, with a capital of $100, he combined with George T. Lanigan, the writer, to establish the Montreal Star. Cancer is the great enigma of medical science. Many of the most dreaded diseases have been brought under control or greatly mitigated-smallpox with vaccine, typhoid fever with chlorination, diphtheria with antitoxin, tuberculosis with an all-round hygienic program, yellow fever with mosquito control, leprosy with chaulmoogra oil, diabetes...
...vital and much discussed question of branch banking has again been given prominence by the test case brought before the U. S. Supreme Court by the First National Bank of St. Louis, which claims the right to establish more than one place of business in the city where it is authorized to do business. The Court's decision should decide whether branch banking is implied in the national bank act, and whether a State has the power to limit a national bank Federally incorporated. Briefs will be filed by the Attorneys General of ten states...
Reports submitted by other committees of the Associated Harvard Clubs and published in the current issue of the University Alumni Bulletin recommended that a scholarship be established at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, England, which was John Harvard's almamater, in memory of Lionel de Jersey '15, who was killed in action at Arras in 1917 while serving as first lieutenant and acting captain in the Grenadier Guards: that the committee which is raising $250,000 to endow five professorships at Berea College, Kentucky, in memory of Professor N. S. Shaler '62, the great Harvard geologist, be continued for another year...