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...authorities may impose, even to the point of expulsion from membership. Just as a private club is not compelled to tolerate the presence of an objectionable member because of legal restraint, so the Exchange, which is a voluntary association, is equally free. Last year, the Exchange authorities called Nathan J. Miller,* senior partner of the Stock Exchange house of Miller& Co., on the carpet. His firm was found guilty of "washing stock,"-i.e., making fictitious sales without real change of ownership-in the shares of the Southern States Oil Company on the Curb Market, and promptyl expelled from the Stock...
...encounter or divine-Aesthete: Model 1924, A Literary Lady, A Literary Enthusiast, A Critic, A Liberal, A Synthetic Gael, The second row is subplacarded Impressions-brief sketches of Cabell, Hergesheimer, G. B. Shaw and others; and Close-Ups -the big pieces of the exhibit, presenting among others George Jean Nathan, F. Scott Fitzgerald, George Moore and Mr. Boyd's countrymen -Yeats, Stephens and George W. Russell. These latter are the proper portraits of the exhibition, the "serious" work...
...topic to be discussed on Wednesday afternoon in the New Chamber of Commerce Building in Boston. At this meeting the speakers will be Richard S. Childs of New York, John F. Moors '83 of Boston, Fellow of Harvard College, and George R. Nutter '85 of Boston. Hon, Nathan Matthews '75, Mayor of Boston from 1891 to 1895 and subsequently chairmen of the Boston Finance Commission, will preside...
...hunters had been asked to sniff about for two Republican funds in addition to the regular Party budget ?one fund the care of bankers, the other of manufacturers and business men. Mr. Grundy vowed ignorance of such funds. So did the other three Pennsylvanians, one Nathan T. Folwell (dress goods), Samuel M. Vauclain (Baldwin locomotives), Edward T. Stotesbury (banks) ; but Mr. Vauclain became involved in an explanation of a $10,000 contribution which his company had made to an organization (The American Economic Institute) whose frankly admitted aim was " to protect the railroads against improper legislation...
...than any encyclopedia of knowledge. The ability to grasp and reason with experiential fact is supposed to be developed by the testing and teaching of a college course. Naturally the emphasis has been shifted from the body of facts to the method of using them, but Messrs. Mencken and Nathan are merely shadow boxing with an ethereal opponent if they conceive that education has been evaporated to a highly concentrated essence, devoid of all relation to the world of problems surrounding modern...