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Aloof from the League of Nations, the U. S. picks and chooses such League activities as it pleases to cooperate with. Last week Secretary Kellogg notified the League's secretary-general that controlling the world's supply of opium, from raw material to derived product, was one of the things the U. S. thinks the League does not do very successfully. The U. S. declined to join in the appointment of a central board under the Geneva opium convention of 1925, considering it no improvement upon the Hague convention...
...each member of a squad of 50 ... Columbia, planning to "resume athletic relations" with Dartmouth, was trying to build a backfield around a lone veteran called Kumpf . . . Dartmouth would have last year's stars, Captain Black and Alton Marsters . . . Roper of Princeton, who is at his best with raw beef, had a squad with many lettermen . . . three Harvard backs were severely injured in practice . . Captain Donn Greenshields of Penn State was in bed, recovering from pneumonia . . . Knute Rockne, famed Notre Dame coach and journalist, and Coach Pat Page of Indiana, bringing to their rough game a quality hitherto prized...
...mother, herself a player, has been friend and mentor of the Meadow Larks, a team which included young Tommy and Stevenson and many another youngster who now has an international rating. It was she who in 1921 polished the play of the 16-year-old Guest, then a raw but distinguished immigrant to the U. S. from England. Polo is in the Hitchcock blood. Thomas Hitchcock Jr. ranks with Devereaux Milburn and possibly Lewis Lacey as one of the two or three greatest of the polo great...
Speculators rejoiced, last week, as one more "ring" was made ready for the traders. When the secretary of the National Raw Silk Exchange mounts the rostrum (sharply at 10:30 a. m., Sept. 11) and utters the word "October," a new commodity exchange will be in operation. Promptly, one of the traders will quote a price, approximately $5. He will have offered to buy or sell five bales (665 Ibs.) of October silk at $5 a pound...
...still be subjected to prohibitions and restrictions by the various nations. It was agreed that Chile, for example, might continue temporarily to exercise governmental control over her imports of scrap iron and scrap zinc, and over the importation of hares. Portugal retained temporary control of her fine wool and raw cork exports. Bulgaria chose to guard her exports of rose trees, roots, shoots; Sweden, her scrap iron; Czechoslovakia, her hop shoots...