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Banker Speyer in continuing his tribute mentioned two items of "indispensable assistance": Mr. Mellon's reduction and reform of income taxes, and the foreign debt settlements. In these matters, the aid Mr. Mellon had had from others and his backing by two presidents, were recognized. Had Banker Speyer thought of it, had the occasion been more appropriate, he might have mentioned another service, of considerable dimensions though of a less tangible nature, that Secretary Mellon has performed in the five years that have elapsed since he left his Pittsburgh home to occupy a spacious and luxurious apartment in Washington...
...arrival into the ins and outs of the college before he plunges into the maelstrom. The second contemplates the abolishment of mid-year examinations. It is purposed to rest grades during the year on judgments more co-incident with the actual work performed in courses. The third and last reform is identical with that most recently instituted in Harvard and Yale, namely, permission for upper-classmen seeking distinction to reduce the burden of courses...
...Hammond had with her in Johannesburg Mr. Hammond's sister and her little boy Jackie* (her second son) aged eight. The preliminary trial of the Reform Committee soon began "for high treason" but about that time Mr. Hammond fell ill with dysentery. Mrs. Hammond got him out of jail under guard, nursed him herself. Finally under $100,000 bail he was allowed to leave the country and go to Cape Town...
Londoners of a Victorian cast of mind peeped cautiously last week into a new book, The Need for Eugenic Reform, by Major Leonard Darwin. They had not yet recovered from The Origin of Species by the Major's late father, Charles Darwin. Their horridest fears were stirred when they discovered that the "eugenic reform" demanded by the major is a law penalizing individuals who bring into the world a greater number of children than their income will permit them to support decently...
...Warsaw, Finance Minister Jerzy Zdziechowski announced a program of fiscal reform catering somewhat to the potent Jewish financiers of Poland, by whose cooperation he hoped to balance at last the Polish budget. Promptly anti-Semite influence, ever rampant in Poland, forced the resignation of Premier Count Skzrynski's coalition Cabinet...