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...politician can tell farmers this truth and remain a politician. But a great man can encourage and make easier and quicker the essential shift of farmers, or farmers' sons and daughters, into industry. No-one who has not mixed up his ideals with his ambitions, hypnotized himself into believing the best thing for the country coincides with the best thing for personal, political success, could advocate as a permanent policy the subsidy of farmers to induce them not to produce what the country needs...
...present with professors alternating courses annually a certain number of courses must be omitted each year. However, were three instructors to rotate within three courses, continuing the annual shift, every course could be given and without fear of stagnation from the platform. The two highly similar surveys being given now are clogging the drain, making classes unwieldy and hampering the activities of the instructors. Any such change would do much to relieve the strain in the English department...
...unspecified portion of RCA's holdings in RKO stocks and debentures. What Atlas and Lehman paid for their purchase was equally unstated but, inasmuch as the deal carried an option to buy whatever RKO securities Radio Corp. may still hold, the transaction may result in a complete shift of RKO parentage. If the Atlas-Lehman combination takes up its option, it will have a very firm grasp on orphaned RKO, since before last week's sale Radio Corp. owned 48^ of RKO common and 84% of an $11,600,000 debenture issue...
...Louis noted a shift from securities to farms as an investment medium...
Later, the emphasis changes and technical problems of outdoor lighting, atmosphere, and open air occupy the artist. The many etchings and lithographs of street scenes, landscapes, boys bathing in a river on a bright summer day show this shift of interest...