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...trial did his reputation no good. An appeal was started, suddenly dropped. Two rumors persisted: 1) that Sir Joseph Duveen had bought Mme Hahn off; 2) that the suggestions of Sir Joseph's business methods when faced by an important art sale from which he was unable to profit, kept Sir Joseph for three years from the British peerage which he so burningly desired...
...Journal of the American Medical Association last year took in $1,534,609.98 and earned a profit of $605,095.69.* That profit paid for the A. M. A.'s many activities last year-as, the persistent campaign against quacks, health and public instruction, censoring of commercial food and drug products, inspecting & rating medical schools and hospitals, publishing learned, unprofitable journals. After all these expenses the A. M. A. had a surplus for the year...
Operations in the biggest steel districts -Pittsburgh and Chicago-have dragged down the U. S. average. Most companies can break even at 35 to 40% of capacity but for only a few will this mean a second quarter profit. Low April operations will more than offset the recent expansion. Nevertheless, U. S. Steel preferred was last week within a few points of par and the common at 56 had more than doubled its Old Deal...
Five feet three inches high, weighing nearly 125 lb., a man who dislikes tobacco, is indifferent to good clothes and almost as indifferent to statistics, he is a trader with a cold eye for a market profit. Totally lacking in the flush speculator's flair for spending but showing a magnificent willingness to take risks, he has been long and short on a big scale in most commodities, many stocks. He engages extensively in the very risky business of writing puts and calls. He made a fortune (reputedly $2,000,000) in the post-War boom, was cleaned...
Under the present regimen, a college or university which wishes to dispense beers and ales is treated as if it were an ordinary commercial and profit-making source of supply. But the mere fact that beer is sold is not decisive; the relation of a university to its students is categorically different from that of a tradesman to his customers, and the difference ought to be recognized in the law. As for the stipulation that beer cannot be sold to those under twenty-one years of age, it has proved not only harassing to the legal advisers of the University...