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...ship subsidy is being sidestepped by the Simmons and Norris farm bloc bills brings back that historic scene in "Penrod" when all the boys ran away from beautiful Marjorie Jones, to lavish their attentions on the disingenuous little out-of-town girl, Fanchon Gelbraith. President Harding's attempt to usher his subsidy through Congress has gone for naught. Teacher's pet fares poorly when she is left all alone among the rough boys from the great unruly West...
...transported, nor for the lands where these peoples are to be settle. What if, at the end of two or three centuries the United States should decide the country was burdened with more of a certain race than it could support, and found it advisable to ship the offending citizens to some other continent? The plan might be successful if a massacre were the only possible alternative; the world may freeze first. Now, however, the problem of overcrowding is vital both at Lausanne and in America, and will be more easily handled before it assumes these "Asiatic" proportions, than after...
...Powell, a former president of the Fore River Ship Building Company, will be the only speaker. The greater part of the evening will be devoted to singing, instrumental performances, and vaudeville stunts by various alumni...
...hundred miles, one day, nearer Europe than is New York, the nearest of the other ports. The steamship companies are glad to dock at Boston and would do so if it were not for the fact that they find no goods on the Boston wharves waiting for export. No ship can be expected to bring cargoes in to port and depart with an empty hold. This freight differential has so blocked the roads that feed the port of Boston that there can be no such exchange and nature has closed the harbor...
...Williams, who was formerly vice-president of the Hydraulic Steel Company, Cleveland, Ohio, has worked for considerable periods of time during the past three years as an unskilled laborer, under an assumed name, in steel miles, coal mines, ship yards, and railway roundhouses, both in America and in Europe. With these experiences as a background, Mr. Williams has written several articles and books on the psychology of labor and social problems. He has been delivering a series of lectures in the Graduate School of Business Administration during the past month of "Industrial Management" and "Labor Problems...