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...throughout the game, and any other idle broker may join in, although an outsider does not have the advantage of holding a numbered slip. Instead of settling individual transactions, each broker records his trades as he would on the Floor, turning over to a volunteer "clearing agent" for "settlement" at the end of the game his "bought" and "sold" memoranda. The game goes on until trading peters out or the real stockmarket stirs in its sleep. Losses have run as high as $200 in a single game but the average gain or loss is between $10 and $20 per "session...
...When he recites the Gettysburg Address, he does so from his heart and the full solemnity of its 266 words is in the bashful quaver of his voice. That this fable of a transplanted menial who becomes hero of a town which he describes as "a remote settlement" is as tender and as softly humorous now as it was when Harry Leon Wilson wrote it 20 years ago, is not due entirely to Charles Laughton's superbly skillful performance as the hero. It is not due entirely to the intonations supplied in minor parts by Charles Ruggles, Mary Boland...
Married. Helen Hall, fortyish, director of Manhattan's Henry Street Settlement, president of the National Federation of Settlements; and Paul Underwood Kellogg, 55, editor of The Survey and The Survey Graphic; in Jersey City...
...practice with the social work it was intended to perform. In the eyes of resident underclassmen, P.B.H. has come to be looked on as a self-sufficient commuters unit, comparable to a House, and, hence, an organization with which they can have no proper connection except as a competitor. Settlement work, child welfare, boy guidance, all the proper functions of Phillips, have been so subordinated to its commuter relationship that the residents have lost sight of, and interest in, these legitimate phases of the Houses's activities. More, the physical capacity of the building has been taxed until the former...
...Realmleader Hitler sidetrack Britain and France into a more mutual pact against unprovoked air aggression in Western Europe, leaving the Eastern Locarno barren and betrayed. What the Soviet Union fears is that some day Europe's Capitalist Powers will realize where their interest lies, namely in a drastic settlement of Eastern Europe's frontier problems at Bolshevik Russia's expense...