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...older, better known universities where salaries are generally higher, chances of fame better. But any chart of professorial movements would also show a trend toward such midwestern institutions as the Universities of Chicago and Wisconsin, an even more pronounced trend toward California. Last week occurred an important shift in the West. Dr. John Donald Hicks, distinguished dean of the college of arts & sciences of the University of Nebraska, resigned to become professor of American history at Dr. Glenn Frank's University of Wisconsin. He will replace Pulitzer-prizewinning (1924) Professor Frederic Logan Paxson, who next session will be teaching...
...Postal Shift. Because of the outcry that was raised at revelation of how Kreuger & Toll, acting with full legal rights, had shifted the collateral behind its bonds, the New York Stock Exchange lately passed a rule that it must be notified immediately of such changes. More than two years ago Postal Telegraph & Cable made such a shift. It removed and retired Commercial Cable Co.'s first mortgage bonds and debenture stock, replacing them with Commercial Cable unsecured notes. The amount involved was about $20,000.000. Leading statistical services have been aware of the change, as have sharp-eyed investors...
...small but outstanding group of some of America's rich men are now seeking, by the expenditure of vast sums of money, to secure the repeal of the 18th Amendment. This would evidently shift the burden of taxation from their own shoulders to the backs of the poor...
Airline passenger traffic rises to a peak around Labor Day. To capitalize this bulge most companies inaugurate new schedules, speed up old with the coming of warm weather. Last month American Airways by a one-hour shift in a plane departure at Cleveland so bettered connections with Pan American that the New York-Mexico City run was cut from 62 to 44 hr. United Airlines last fortnight put on a new plane to San Francisco which entails the loss of only one business day, announced that before the year ended it would cut the coast-to-coast...
...Chandor School, choosing 100 girls for character and breeding sooner than wealth, keeping classes small, teaching always herself, emphasizing scholarship, urging college afterwards but making sure her girls get an "education to live in the world." Spence's 176 pupils plus her own 100 would make her shift to the bigger scale of New York's other schools, but she had no change of method to announce. "It all happened so suddenly," said she, "I haven't had time to think about those things...