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...Free State." C. Mrs. John Garibaldi Sargent, wife of the Attorney General, arrived in Washing- ton from Ludlow, Vt., recovered at last from long illness. President and Mrs. Coolidge went to the Sargents' for a dinner which was a friends' reunion as well as the fourth function of a regular series conducted in wintertime by Cabinet members. Secretaries Kellogg, Mellon and Dwight Filley Davis had already performed their duties in this respect. Secretary Work's dinner was scheduled next. C. At the White House, the third state dinner of the season, for the Judiciary, passed off brightly...
...entirely a visual idiom. The gigantic concept of enabling those who cannot see, to imagine the meanings of the words they read, was the beginning of an extraordinary change in the condition of people who had heretofore been only a little less tragically useless than lepers. Now competent organizations function to aid the blind. In Mount Healthy, the Trader sisters, one blind, both with foresight, have established the Clovernook Press. There, by subscription, are printed books in braille. Kindly senators pass laws; a beneficent government charges no postage on books mailed to the blind. Workers from the American Foundation...
...four years ago leaving her childless. Quietly she selected "a young man of good family and good character with the proper eugenic background'' to be the father of her child. "There was nothing which approached promiscuity" in their relationship, she said. The young man, after performing his function as eugenic husband, quietly stepped out of her life. A fortnight ago at the Lying-in Hospital in Manhattan she gave birth to a daughter, whom she named Vera (truth). Last week an enterprising reporter of the New York World, unabashed by Mrs. Burnham's admonition ("This...
Since 1887, the emphasis of I. C. C. actions, and of laws to back up the actions, has extended from the first-named function (rate-making) to the third-named (scrutiny of financial structures). In 1906, for example, the so-called Hepburn Bill finally gave the I. C. C. power to fix rates. Whereas in 1920, the Esch-Cummins Act, which returned the railroads to private control after the War, invaded whatever "private rights" a "public utility" may have, by requiring the railroads to pay the Interstate Commerce Commission one-half their profits above 6%. This so-called "recapture" clause...
...Robert Clarkson that his able efforts in the Chase Bank came to the notice of a discerning eye. In almost every efficient organization, however chaotic its workings may seem, there is one man, who may be the assistant cashier but who is more likely to be the president, whose function is to handle the controls. Albert Henry Wiggin occupied this position at the Chase National Bank, from 1911 to 1918, and again from 1921 to 1926* under the title of President. He occupies it now, astute observers suspect, in his title of Chairman of the Board. Spruce and quick-witted...