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...regard to Latin America, and Japan, with regard to North China, are both interested in excluding foreign political influences which might undermine their own economic interests and opportunities in those areas. To advance this policy, Japan has been induced by the chaotic situation in North China, to adopt an outright coercive technique; the United States has been generally successful in using more subtle measures, such as financial infiltration, but we have on more than a hundred occassions since 1850 resorted to force of arms to protect our economic interests in Latin America. By using strong-arm methods Japan has rushed...
...Donald St. Pierre's car. smacked it over an embankment. Millionaire Heim, who had with him a woman (later his wife), settled out of court to avoid publicity. Settlement: Heim to provide St. Pierre with everything he wanted till he was 21, then pay him $35,000 outright. Last week in Pittsburgh St. Pierre, now 22, sued Millionaire Heim for $31,000 "legal blackmail," alleged that he had been paid only $4,000 of the stipulated $35,000 final settlement, admitted that during the last five years he had received from Heim and spent nearly...
...statistics. From 5,823 physicians in all sections of the U. S. it had received answers to a questionnaire on charity work. The answers revealed that an "average doctor" works 50 weeks per year, 62 hours per week. Of those 62 hours he gives a little more than 15 outright to patients who he knows cannot pay. He spends another 15 on patients who he discovers will not pay. Therefore, concluded Medical Economics, John Doctor and his colleagues each day give U. S. paupers and deadbeats professional services worth more than...
Seventy-five Freshmen signed a petition favoring the abolition of compulsory athletics for first year men which was circulated through the Yard last night. At least fifty more students desired a change in the present arrangements, but were unwilling to subscribe to the proposal for outright abolition. The petition read as follows...
...there can be no doubt that the outright partisanship by General Johnson of the cause of the A. F. of L. in his speech to the assembled code authorities last week was a straw that broke, the camel's back. If the Government is to take the side of labor, and determine the method of dues paying and organization, industry is willing: but it wants the Government to supervise the labor unions for their financial affairs and every detail of the work now being done by the local organizers. In fact, Government control of labor unions may be the answer...