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This total of $874,111.48 represents the largest volume of business in the history of the society. Part of the increase is due, no doubt, to the higher range of prices everywhere current during the year which would show its effects in an enhanced volume of sales, measured in dollars, even if the actual turnover of merchandise, measured in units, had not increased. But even with adequate allowance for this factor the business of the Cooperative has grown considerably during the past fiscal year in practically all departments...
...uncertain terms you denounced an attack made upon your College on Sunday night, September 26. The attack was hard to swallow, and aroused your wrath. Let us suppose for the sake of argument that the attack was true--that one of the most famous institutions for higher learning in America, the land of the free, does in spirit espouse the cause of the same military tyranny from which we so proudly rescued ourselves 150 years ago. If that is true, would not silence have been your safest weapon in concealing Harvard's shame...
...have not been able, within the limits of this article, to discuss in detail the consular service. It is even today on a much more solid footing than our diplomatic service. The salary range, as I have said, is much higher. The positions from the highest to the lowest have, since President Roosevelt's day, been filled entirely without regard to partisan or political considerations. And a first-rate consul can ordinarily stay in the service, gradually moving up, as long as he likes...
...your editorial "Chicago's Plight" you state that Chicago is "literally broke" as a result of Thompson's extravagant administration. Boston's per capita debt is several times that of Chicago; and the bonds of the city of Chicago are said to be selling six points higher in the open market than Victory bonds. If Chicago is bankrupt, where does Boston get off? and what has his the United States of America...
...depleted that; she has resorted to paying municipal employees in scrip. "Per capita debt" seems to mean nothing without taking into account the resources per capita. We do not know who is the authority for Mr. Davis's statement that chicago municipal bonds are selling six points higher than Victory Bonds. The latter closed last week at 96, 06, while inquiry from three of the largest municipal bond houses in Boston shows that four per cent bonds of the city of Chicago maturing round 1935, and so comparable to victory Bonds, are selling at present...