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...business concerned, some building & loan shares. He most graciously advised me that, in his opinion, anyone who would keep their cash in building & loan and then impose upon their banker for commercial loans should have their account removed from the commercial bank. And Mackey was right. Three percent is usually much better than 6% or 7% if the money at 3% is available and it usually is when placed with your own banker...
...weighted average of the team representing Exeter was 90.44 per cent; the school next in order, with 89.81 percent, was the Lawrenceville, New Jersey School, last year's winner; in third place was the Boston Latin School, with 87.92 per cent. Since the term of seven years for which the trophy was offered for annual competition has now been completed, the permanent award will be made. Boston Latin School is the winner, having gained the trophy four of the seven years...
...social changes I consider most important," Professor Hopper declared. "There is now a differentiation in wages, instituted to arrest the equalizing tendency which has destroyed the incentive for learning of skilled trades. The wages of skilled workers were raised 30 percent on October 1. The 'former' people, especially the bourgeois specialists, have now been granted the privileges of the proletariat. Since the time has passed when class war demanded removal of such people from the party, Russia hopes to produce from these people a trained personnel to operate its industries more efficiently than specialists from the proletariat...
...pulpit is to blame for the apathy and conditions of today. . . . The Church was commissioned to evangelize the peoples of the world. Evangelism is her supreme business. . . . Does she know her business? Does she recognize her duty? . . . Ninety percent of the sermons are not evangelistic...
...Ninety percent of the efforts of the members of the church are unevangelistic. The men are concerned with machinery and budgets-souls are secondary. . . . The supreme business of Christian laymen-including women-is finding the unsaved and telling them the good news of salvation...