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...market has held at the delicate and fateful 96 level (Dew, Jones), which we predicted it would reach several weeks ago. Traders are on pine and needier because every indication is that it cannot maintain this tightrope position for very long and that a sharp movement may be expected as a matter of the next few trading hours. It is the business of predicting the direction of the movement that has the experts worried. Unless prices, immediately push up through that tricky 96 level, a reaction to the 90-92 point may be expected. Repeating our advice of last week...
...been noticed by impartial observers. There is no reason why admission requirements for the Graduate School should be any less stringent than those for A.B. or S.B. candidates. To eliminate this bugbear of graduate students, and to reduce the present mortality among inadequately prepared men, the Administration should maintain strictly the language requirements for admission to the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences...
...particular level. I have in this matter declared the policy of His Majesty's Government many times without succeeding always in convincing people across the sea. However, I'll try once more and say for the umpteenth time that the policy of this government is to maintain the independence of sterling. . . . We have never attempted nor are we attempting now to fix exchange at a given point or maintain it even within a fixed limit of values...
...just as important" as the invention of the automobile. Chief objective of U. S. government in the next ten years, says he, should be "so to manage the tariff, and the money system, to control railroad interest rates; and to encourage price and production policies that will maintain a continually balanced relationship between the income of agriculture, labor, and industry." To those who want to keep government out of business he retorts: "The hard facts are that for years government has been in business, and business in government, to a point where it is impossible to untangle the mess...
...order to promote trade and commerce in the public interest, further improve railroad service, and maintain the integrity and credit of the industry, rail-road companies of the U. S. do hereby establish an authoritative national organization which shall be adequately qualified and empowered in every lawful way to accomplish these ends where concert of policy and action are required...