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Another reason for the Socialist vote was the high tariff which the Government intends to impose on cereals, automobiles, etc., to meet the burdens imposed by the Experts' Plan. The Socialists saw in this measure proof that the Government was under the thumb of the grain-growing Junkers. As for the tariff on automobiles, the German trade in them was so hopeless that it would be years before it could catch up with foreign competitors. During this time, apparently, Germans will have to pay far more than the world price for their autos or go without them. Hence there...
Investigate, Secretary Jardine did. Last week he was still investigating. It was known that the Departments of Jus tice and Commerce were also sniffing about the Midwestern brokerages. But not one of the investigators had yet run upon any proof of correspondence between the Messrs. Livermore and Howell nor any records of sales in those gentlemen's names executed in other than legitimate "contract" markets. As far as the evidence went, it was mere business acumen that had moved them separately to sell their grain at the same time and keep on selling until it was time...
TABLE TALK OF G. B. S.-Archibald Henderson-Harper ($2.00). Last year, Mr. Shaw "granted an interview." Unto him there entered his Boswell, brisk Prof. Henderson of the University of North Carolina; and a book, instead of a column in the newspapers, now emerges. Here indeed is proof of pundithood...
...Deal, England, steel skeletons of houses were arising last week, were being fleshed with compressed cork, tegumented with an inch and a half of concrete from "cement guns." Slow to burn, sound proof, cheap and quick to build with unskilled labor, 25% easier to heat than brick, stone or timber, the cork abodes were hailed as a solution of the housing problem in industrial areas...
Many hunting trips have been led into the field by Dr. Smith in all quarters of the globe. As a proof of his prowess as a huntsman, several of the specimens which he procured in Africa are now in the Agassiz Museum of the University. Still others are the property of the Smithsonian Museum in Washington. The safety of a hunting trip under Dr. Smith is assured by the fact that he is a physician with full knowledge of how to ward off or cure the numerous diseases prevalent in the tropics...