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...caviar from Russia, poulards from Toulouse and other delicacies. I travel habitually in an airplane fitted up as a business office. I inherited a large fortune from my father but have doubled it many times in Brazilian, Spanish and Mexican companies from which ] claim to have derived a total profit of one and a quarter billion Belgian francs ($35,000,000). My most famous attempted 'deal' was an offer to loan $100,000,000 to Belgium and France wherewith to stabilize their currencies. This fell through when it was discovered that I demanded personal control of the state...
...American graduate schools is a very real one. The smaller college have felt it necessary to insist upon advanced degrees for members of their teaching staff and this has been very useful in raising the whole standard of our teaching, but men who are preparing to teach would really profit, but a somewhat different training from those who are planning to go in for productive scholarship...
George F. Johnson, president, Endicott-Johnson Corp., reputedly the largest shoemakers in the world: "My company employs 17,000 men, many of whom buy goods on the installment plan. I disapprove of this practice, for, as I said last week, 'The only profit out of installment buying goes to the men who make the sales, and sometimes to the banks who handle the papers, but never to the poor devil who owes and must...
...sake of greater tolerance toward three in every hundred of his fellows, the chapter on "urnings" and "uranism" -in which the four long letters, invented or not, are as remarkable as anything that will be published this year-let the reader attend a chapter which may mightily shock and profit parents teachers, preachers, public officials and alleged adults of every sort- the chapter on "Adult Infantilism In a Nation, In an Individual, In Literature...
...University football squad was the guest of the Metropolitan Theatre last night for an unusual blackboard session. The coaches hoped that the team might profit from Richard Dix's new college comedy. "The Quarterback," inasmuch as the cinema was directed by Coach Yost of the University of Michigan. The Ann Arbor football mentor had full charge of coaching the screen teams and filming the production to which, the players were invited...