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...ingenious manner, Mr. Tunis has classified football into three periods, the Rah-Rah Stage, the age of Big Business, and the decadent period. Writing from an eastern point of view he sees the college man and the player of our Eastern universities gradually becoming less football conscious, while his midwestern brother is now struggling in the throes of footballitis in its most-malignant form. The condition in the east has reached the decadent stage, while in the mid-west the cloud of pessimism has not yet obscured the glory of football and all that it connotes. The explanation of this...
...came back from the first trip to "Big Ten" territory with a heads-up attitude, and if left behind a profound respect for the work that Horween has accomplished. I have criticized Harvard teams that Horween has coached, but there was no adequate reason for any' criticism of the midwestern defeat...
Just before dawn, one morning a fortnight ago, all seemed quiet on the University of Illinois' midwestern front. But the rambling campus slept fitfully, for later in the day undergraduates were to elect sophomore, junior, senior class officers. Not for some time had the political position of the fraternity cabal been challenged. But this fall, one John Granata, brother of Pete Granata, Chicago precinct captain in Morris Eller's "bloody twentieth" ward, had rallied about him the "barbarians" (non-fraternity men) to form an independent party...
...will be [in Continental Chicago Corp.] nothing of the speculative activity in which many of the present organizations [investment trusts] are prominent and which will undoubtedly, occasion difficulty unless it is abandoned." It appeared, therefore, that Continental Chicago Corp. would function as a financial foster-father for Chicago and Midwestern industry, would provide funds for the expansion of many a middle-western business, and that its well-being would not be inseparably connected with the upward revisions of market quotations. In discussing the new company, however, Mr. Reynolds issued a bullish bull to the effect that it would not have...
...tariff changes except those on agricultural products. Then the Senate agreed to get down seriously to arguing four days later, and meantime took a rest. The lineup showed three groups: 1) The regular Republicans, supposedly in favor of plenty of tariff of all kinds. 2) The group of Midwestern, more or less insurgent Republicans, who want only a tariff on agriculture. 3) The Democrats, supposedly in favor of very little tariff of any kind. But the lineup meant little. There are regular Republicans only half-hearted about many tariff items. And all good Democrats want some tariff or other...