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Supreme Court. In an inconclusive decision in the Chicago telephone rate case which sent that seven-year-old controversy back to a lower Federal court for settlement, corporation lawyers thought they detected a significant inclination on the part of the High Court to widen the regulatory powers of State agencies over local utilities doing an interstate business...
Each year for several years the Philips Brooks House Association has conducted two drives for discarded clothing, magazines, and books. The best of the clothing received is sent to settlement houses and other welfare organizations. Any textbooks received are placed in the textbook loan library maintained by the Association. Other books and magazines collected are sent to the Merchant Marine...
...Manhattan Island. She carried Harry Whitney, Philadelphia financier-naturalist,* and Junius Bird, archeologist. Mr. Bird had gone on the cold 15,000-mi. trip because he had a mystery he wanted to solve. In 1823, the British explorer, Capt. D. C. Clavering had visited a highly civilized Eskimo settlement along the eastern coast. Since Clavering, no explorer had been able to find the town again. Captain Bartlett landed his scientists near the reported location. Naturalist Whitney helped Archeologist Bird scout the country and they found half an answer to the 100-year-old mystery: a group of deserted stone houses...
...carpet for inspection last week, the Hoover Administration thought it timely to announce once more through Undersecretary of the U. S. Treasury Ogden Livingston Mills that the sums which the Allies expect to receive from Germany and those which the Allies are expected to pay the U. S. in settlement of their War debts are "unrelated"-that even if Germany defaults, the U. S Government (not to be confused with U. S. holders of German 5½'s) will still expect and demand to be paid by the Allies...
...greatest part of the service is performed in settlement houses such as Lincoln House, North Bennet Street Industrial School, Denison House, Cambridge Y. M. C. A., Emmanuel Memorial House, and the Ellis Memorial. Here the volunteers act as lenders in the activities of the boys' organizations, refereeing or coaching basketball, aiding in naturalization work, teaching arithmetic, english, history, and geography. The "home librarios" form another of the most important phases of the work. Certain books are read by the members of the boys' clubs who write short reports telling whether they liked or disliked reading. General discussions follow...