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...legal rebuttal, the dean said that if his wife left him it would be impossible for him to maintain two establishments. He loved her and his children and "there never has been a time when [they] need him more than at the present time...
...contributor to the science of anthropology, in 1929 she offered 300 acres of her estate to Director 0. Emerson Brown of Philadelphia's Zoological Gardens, an ape enthusiast, as an experimental breeding place. The Republic of Cuba doubtless remembered this offer when, short of funds with which to maintain the Villa Palatino, it last week consigned part of Senora Abreu's collection to the Philadelphia zoo. The shipment contained a family of Sumatran orangutans, a pair of lion-tailed monkeys, a pair of golden marmosets, a black Celebes ape and an African mandrill said to be the largest...
...principally at stake is Henry Ford's place in economic history. Two years ago he saw the whole world, including bankers, capitulating to the Ford theory that high wages create prosperity. A year ago he was pleased to see that the U. S. business world still fought to maintain the theory of which he had become the Symbol. But last week he knew that the greatest subject in business today is whether or not wages must come down, that many financiers (historically his opponents) are paving the way for such a move. Henry Ford has given no real opinion...
...mitigated. When the present year is reviewed, it will be found that Beta Theta Pi gave a musicale, that another fraternity gave a play, and one or another gave "bear parties." But that is all. Presented with such a record it would be difficult for any group to maintain it had a vital raison d'etre. This, even the undergraduate reluctantly acknowledges, yet remains inactive in strengthening-the tottering position of his institution...
...will stand as a monument to his fame as long as there is a shred of capitalism and conservatism in the land. It was Mr. Baker's job to build up this prince of commercial banks; it is the task of his less imaginative and more conservative successors to maintain it. Outside of the First National, Mr. Baker's chief interests were in America's two greatest pioneer industries, Steel and Railroads. In these his influence was always great, often decisive...