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Significance. Theoretically, the importance of the order would seem to be a likely shift of the center of the steel industry. With Pittsburgh Plus abolished, many manufacturers would immediately build factories near other steel-producing centres, now free to market at reduced prices. Gary, Ind., particularly, has watched the Pittsburgh Plus fight with intense interest. Business circles, however, attached little significance to the Commission's action in its immediate effect upon the steel business...
...long ago reported that an actress substituted for a wife, as is done in this picture. Here Leatrice Joy plays both the actress desirous of domesticity and the wife with an itch to act. To American audiences, it will probably seem a very serious business when they shift husbands...
...consequent feeling of depression was evident in the closing hours. The Democrats .strove to shift the burden of disfavor upon the Republican Congress. The Republican members were eager to lay any failure to obstruction by Democrats and insurgents. Both were anxious to put blame on the Administration, which retained an unaccountable popularity, playing a cautious, silent game at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue...
...Harvard-Cambridge debate which is scheduled to be held in Symphony Hall on October 23 may not take place at all owing to a shift in the Englishmen's itinerary. In a recent letter to the Debating Council, they requested an earlier date for the contest. According to the officers of the Council, it would be impossible for the Crimson speakers to prepare in a much shorter time than that originally allowed...
Needless to say, lie is sending to Philadelphia a crew which will almost surely win, since it has beaten all its rivals heretofore by wide margins. The Yale eight will do an enormous amount of hustling to make the shift from Red Top to Philadelphia and back to Red Top again...