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...leader of the Senate, rushed to the White House with alarm on his lips. Cotton had dropped 40 to 50 points (TIME, Oct. 4), following the publication of the Department of Agriculture's estimate of a superabundant crop. Forthwith, President Coolidge announced that the Farm Labor Board would extend a $30,000,000 credit to co-operative marketing associations which had been hit by the slump in cotton prices. The next day, the President appointed Secretaries Mellon, Hoover, Jardine and Eugene Meyer Jr., Managing Director of the War Finance Corp., as a commission to devise orderly methods of selling...
Britain's "million miner coal strike" (TIME, May 10 et seq.) seemed on the verge of collapse last week as the number of miners who have repudiated their leaders and returned to work swelled to 200,000. Significant developments: Parliament convened for a short special session to extend the Emergency Power Act which has been kept in force during the entire 23 weeks of the strike. Premier Baldwin declared before the Commons that his Government had come virtually to the end of its powers of mediation in the strike. He indicated that if the miners would return to work...
Sixty white oxen drew this country's first steam mill across the continent, to Sutter. Shiploads of firearms, seeds, implements, nails, clothing rounded the Horn annually, for Sutter. The world's soundest banks were pleased to extend credit to America's biggest landlord, Johann August Sutter...
Special attention is being given this fall to this part of the University football system as a part of the general endeavor to extend active participation in athletics to the rank and file of the students. For years class athletics have failed to arouse the interest or participa of very many students. Last year the class football schedules were uncertain, the squads very small, and the facilities scarcely adequate...
...Schools. Dean Everett W. Lord, for instance, of the business college at Boston University, was back at his desk after visiting Porto Rico to establish there the first of a chain of schools in business administration which Boston University proposes to extend to many a foreign land...