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...slicing which has been going on in Kansas City during the past few days is sensational enough to provoke consideration. Within an incredibly brief space of time the retail values attached to all articles of wearing apparel and shoes have been reduced by amounts equalling in many cases sixty percent. The sudden violence of the movement in this single district is sufficient to cause one to look beyond general conditions for an explanation...
...finds the Harvard Endowment Fund within hailing distance of the 80 percent of the desired amount, with every prospect that the fund will enter the final fifth before the first of June. The fund management is looking forward to a substantial increase with the return of graduates next month for commencement. The latest fund totals were: Boston, $4,720,677 New York, 4,105,322 Outside, 3,356,788 Total...
...following article William E. Johnson, better known to the public as "Pussyfoot" Johnson, explains the real underlying reasons for the provisions of the Volstead prohibition act which restricts the amount of alcohol contained in salable liquors to one-half of one percent. Mr. Johnson has always been one of the foremost advocates of prohibition, and in the past few months has come into international prominence through his campaign to make England dry and through the attack made upon him by a crowd of English students, who caused the loss of one of his eyes. Returned to this country...
...year, which was held last evening in the Union, the Junior class of 1921 adopted the amendments to the constitutions of the three lower classes proposed by the Student Council in regard to the elections of class officers. By these amendments, which require a vote of at least 60 percent of the members of the class to make an election valid, it is expected that in the future the often unrepresentative elections of the past will be eliminated. With the passing of this measure by the Juniors, the amendments become effective for all classes entering college hereafter, since the Freshmen...
...primary and he won at the result of the same sort of campaigning at the November election. Taking office at the beginning of 1911, he immediately carried his pre-election promises to a 100 percent fulfillment. Men opposed to Johnson at the beginning of his political career are now openly in the fight in his behalf...