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...case of the Government against Benedict Crowell, of Cleveland, former Assistant Secretary of War (TIME, Oct. 15), was thrown bodily out of court. Mr. Crowell and six associates were indicted over a year ago on the charge of conspiracy to obtain profit for themselves and their friends from cost-plus contracts for building Army cantonments during the War period. The case came up in October and the defendants filed demurrers...
...industry he has stood for high wages, profit sharing with employees (in this he was a leader long before it received general publicity) and high standards of living. He believes in and set an example of hard work. He also believes in vacations, saying that a man who works twelve months does only eight months' work. As for getting ahead in the world, his maxim is: "Roasted pigeons don't fly into a man's mouth...
...familiarize American students with English methods of work, and to give the individual help in their own research problem from the leading English scholars in that field are the principal objects of these variation courses. Applicants for enrollment are required to state their qualifications for pursuing such work with profit...
...ages and types. He gets to know the point of view of other kinds of men, and his intercourse with them is a valuable broadening influence. It is a fact, too, that it does a Freshman good to be thrown with older men, and the upperclassmen in turn profit by the friendship with younger...
...chief effect of this sort of stuff is a certain softening of the brain. If Brazil can eat it up, as after all, America, eats it up too and get away with it, without the accompanying cerebral debility, Americans will be the first to rejoice and incidentally, to profit...