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Lord Askwith's object was, of course, to boost the price of tin by suggesting that it might soon be as rare as gold. But London tin dealers were deaf to Lord Askwith. They put down the price of tin by nearly $11 per ton and in New York tin lost ⅛? per pound. Guggenheim interests and the National Lead Co., largest U. S. tin producers, have frequently warned the U. S. of a world shortage of tin by 1940. U. S. prices, however, over the last four months have gone down to 50? a pound from 65?. British...
...many of these aversions happened to be faculty men-or higher. Not obscene, it was not forbidden the mails, nor was the sale of it in the college prohibited. But-and I have this from a student-the editor was asked to resign from the local literary fraternity, the object of the front-piece caricature threatened libel suits, the wives of the offended faculty threw fits, the faculty itself debated for four hours the question: Resolved, that the Froth be indefinitely suspended and that various punishments be meted out to its officers. The question, to my understanding, still hangs...
...like sort is the problem that has long confronted the Federal courts and square-jawed Thomas James Walsh, Arch-inquisitor of the Senate Committee on Public Lands, in the strange transactions of three oil companies remotely connected with the Oil Scandals. The ultimate object of reviewing these transactions is to expose the supposed source of the Liberty Bonds which Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair is known to have given Albert Bacon Fall, defamed Secretary of the Interior who leased Teapot Dome to Sinclair. But the immediate motive, when Inquistor Walsh renewed his inquiries last week, seemed compounded as much of professional...
...president of the various institutions he visited and to acquaint them with the aims and work of the Business School. His next duty was to interview prospective students who were contemplating going to a business school, and to talk with them about the Harvard Business School. His last object was to visit two builders supply conventions held at Dayton, Qhio, and Indianapolis, Indiana...
...parents who keep their son out of college a year after he is prepared are often moved by a belief that he would otherwise be at a social and athletic disadvantage, and this is so far true that if such things were the main object of college the motive would be serious. A student younger than his classmates is usually somewhat less prominent in these matters; but by no means always. Some years ago a father sought advice about sending his son, to Harvard College at 17. He was advised to do so, but warned of the social disadvantage. Wisely...