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...owned the following items, set down the approximate price in dollars and cents for which you would sell them, and the sort of purchaser you would select: (a) Ford coupe which had run 5,000 mi. (b) Basic patent which will reduce the cost cf manufacturing shoes 20? a pair. (c) Secret process for manufacturing a drug which will definitely cure cancer. (d) Ten acres of land in a good farming section of Iowa...
...this question to theologians, psychologists, men-in-the-street. One opinion, printed in the New York Herald Tribune, came from Director George Herbert Sherwood of the American Museum of Natural History. Said he: "Presumably if anyone is to reach civilization at all, there must be one guide selected for the trip. If the two guides are equally effective, I should select the younger man as probably possessing the greater stamina. Under such circumstances, there is no doubt in my mind but that the leader should remain. There is little probability that the son could stand the hardship. He would...
...appointment because of a cry of "Power Trust!" against him in the Senate. Of the other Commissioners the President explained: "They are required by law to be mixed in political color and must, by implication, be regional and represent different groups of thought, which makes a picture puzzle to select." To the Senate last week as Federal Power Commissioner the President sent the nominations of: Claude L. Draper, chair-man of the Wyoming Public Utilities Com- mission; Ralph B. Williamson, Yakima. Wash., lawyer; Marcel Garsaud, Engineer of the Port of New Orleans...
Rotary presidents are elected for one year only, must devote much time to presidential duties, get no pay. Hence no easy task is it to select the proper person. Elected last week was Almon E. Roth, business manager of Stanford University...
...that it teaches self-control and physical courage. The "sport duel" is fought "not on any point of personal honor but as a test of endurance of bloodletting." The leaders of the undergraduate "corporations" tell off the representatives who are to meet. At Heidelberg, each member of the most select of the 44 corporations must fight ten duels during his three-year residence...