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...qualified to do something about Cotton's prospect as was Claudius T. Murchison when he succeeded George Sloan as president of the Cotton-Textile Institute in November 1935. North Carolina-born, he understood King Cotton as only a Southerner can, knew well that the U. S. sells more raw cotton to Japan than to any country in the world. After teaching economics for 13 years at the University of North Carolina, he was appointed director of the Bureau of Foreign & Domestic Commerce by President Roosevelt in 1934. He sat in with State Department officials on the drafting of reciprocal...
...first time Cornell and Woodland met was a year ago in this same meet in the Garden. The Eli was the winner and the raw young sophomore from Ithaca was fourth. But Cornell improved rapidly, and when they met in the Heptagonal games, Woodland barely beat him out; and he was not to be held off for long, for at Franklin Field two weeks later the Big Red ace was crowned IC4A champion, beatting off the Eli captain-elect in a furious finish. The rivalry between the two will be continued tomorrow night, and though most of the deposters...
...bituminous coal. Its coal route over the Alleghenies from West Deepwater, W. Va. to deeper water at Hampton Roads, Va. is the shortest, easiest. And one of its best customers is the Koppers group of coke, gas and by-products companies, for all of which coal is the basic raw material. The Mellons, unlike some of their contemporaries, do not play the great game of railroad strategy for the sheer thrill of it. The Virginian is a choice investment. It stayed in the black throughout Depression, earned $11.44 for each share of its common stock in the first ten months...
...young men of exceptional promise, but without adequate means of paying for a university education, to whom it is well worth society's while to furnish every opportunity." National scholarships understood in this sense perform the two very essential functions of conserving and developing our intellectual raw material. As soon as additional funds are available, more states will send deserving students. No mean praise is due President Conant for consistently formulating and pursuing a policy of such substantial benefit to the country as a whole. If future financial means flow in as steadily as they have in the last...
Author Dodge has based her romantic tale on a rubble foundation of fact. Claverhouse was a real character who, she thinks, has been handled over roughly by historians. As raw material for the cinema, Graham of Claverhouse is magnificent stuff. As a book, it is cloak-&-sword romance, Grade...