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...attempt to answer this question, Mr. Walter Leaf, famed Greek-scholar and chairman of the Westminster Bank, dropped something of a bombshell into the discussion. In order to attract capital to London-a necessary preliminary to removing the British restrictions on the export of gold-Mr. Leaf advocates an increase in the Bank of England rediscount rate from...
...stuff about the screen. We can take a leaf from our success with the News and put in a couple of pages of news photographs-everybody likes pictures. And a few of that not-too-serious kind of article that gets away strong in The Saturday Evening Post. Oh, yes, and add a few of those 'inspirational' articles that the American Magazine makes its living by, and some of the women's heart stuff and patterns-the things that sell women's magazines. We can print the whole thing by 'coloroto...
...counter suggestion that the fault of the grammar schools lies in political school boards and underpaid teachers; or that a little logic and a little disagreeable work is very "good for the soul." No, small Cousin Biliee must henceforth be allowed to vent his creative impulse on the fly leaf of a first edition "Ulysses", and improve the hitherto uncolored wood-cuts in a calf-skin Hegarth. His ideas of constructive living will doubtless entail late hours and a participation in the family revels...
...paper is in manuscript form contained in a little leather-covered blank-book, measuring six by three and three-quarters inches. The pages are filled with the close and somewhat difficult handwriting of the author, Ebenezer Turrell of the class of 1721. On one fly-leaf is the inscription "E. Turelli Liber" and on another the name of Andrew E. Thayer...
...United States bowed before the onslaught of the powerful Canadian hockey team yesterday in the finals of the Olympic tournament by a 6-1 score. The Maple Leaf skaters are now the world amateur hockey champions...