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Under its terms Mr. Firestone's engineers will explore Liberia, choose 1,000,000 acres of land best suited to his purposes. The land will be cleared and rubber trees will be planted. Meanwhile a U. S. firm has been engaged to build a breakwater at Monrovia, and give Liberia its first harbor. The Firestone Plantations Co. will build roads, houses and improve sanitary conditions. Some 300,000 natives who never before had any employment, except carrying great baskets on their heads, will be hired. A force of Americans will be sent over to superintend the job; food, household furniture...
Charles S. Pierce '95 of Boston, vice-president and general counsel for the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company, and Malcolm Donald '99, partner in the Boston law firm of Herrick, Smith, Donald, and Farley, were named as the two vice-presidents of the Association...
...South American business conducted by Armour & Co. continues in unusually large volume. About 25% of the South American output of packing products is shipped by the local subsidiaries of the big Chicago firm, and consists almost entirely of beef destined for England and the continent. Armour & Co. consequently is now an international business, and its prosperity depends upon foreign as well as purely U. S. economic conditions...
Testimonials. They can be bought in wads of 5000 from a Manhattan firm. Dr. Fishbein presents an example...
This champion of the unprized causes builds like his Fifteenth Century model a policy for political progress on the firm conviction that the voice of the people is but the echo of those who lead them. In short, he caricatures democracy by giving the face of that goddess a Roman nose and by handing her a club, labeled "bunkum". And to those who delight in the raucous ribaldry of Mr. Mencken, and even to those who parade the pageant of their political pessimism a with perennial precision, these words seem the utterances of an oracle. Yet an oracle can have...