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...Gold began to drain rapidly from Holland, Belgium, Switzerland and Italy into France, thence to the U. S. Since France had the most gold and was the freest in letting it go, the drain on France's gold reserve was the heaviest, amounted to 105,000,000 francs. U. S. capital which during the past year had fled abroad was already beginning to come home because of the semi-stabilized dollar. More insistent than ever were predictions that France would have to leave the gold standard if it wanted to check the flight of capital...
...Union was built in 1901 with funds donated by Major Henry Lee Higginson of Boston, who also gave Soldiers Field to the University and founded the Boston Symphony. It was Major Higginson's purpose to present to the University a building where "the freest and fullest intercourse between the students" would be promoted. The Freshman Union Committee of the Class of 1935 had this ideal in mind when it took as its objective "the development of the social, educational and cultural potentialities of the Union." While this ambitious program fell short of complete realization, the Union and its friendly atmosphere...
...insist on state-made products in public works, give preference in supply buying.-So marked has this movement become that the Saturday Evening Post, three weeks after it ran Mr. Blythe's article, devoted its lead editorial to deploring "The New Sectionalism": "To set up barriers . . . against the freest possible interchange of goods between States shows economic and historical illiteracy." While necessary under present conditions for a nation to create foreign trade barriers, it pointed out, the same type of thing was unthinkable within a nation. The New York Times agreed thatthe logical conclusion would come "when we gave...
...However, in spite of the abuses, it is still the best in the world," said Mr. Fish. "And our Republican form of government is by for the soundest, safest, wisest, most honorable and best devised by the mind of man and under it the American people have been the freest and most contented on earth...
...reports of 100,000 U. S. men. But professional men correct their defects, especially of eyes and teeth, better than do the other groups. Hardest of hearing are the younger professional men. The older professionals rate well among oldsters. Nervousness troubles 8% of professionals, 4.5% of farmers. Farmers are freest from defects of tonsils, nose and throat, and from chronic skin diseases. Heart disease occurs more among businessmen than among the others. The pulses most often appear rapid or irregular. More businessmen than farmers use patent medicines. But artisans doctor themselves most...