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Speaking of the emphasis on corporate law under the new plan, the Dean said that he considered that our civilization might today be termed a "corporate" one, "We are seeking to study this phase of law not only from the standpoint of professional practice but also from the point of view of weighing the plan of the corporation in our legal and economic life...
...covering it were footsore, seat-sore and weary. The novelty had worn off. The twin bogies of communication and censorship had cut down the number of scoops. With professional envy the correspondents in Spain were eying China, where their colleagues were stealing the headlines. But Spain from the press standpoint presented a far more significant job, for in Spain, the press was tackling the day-in, day-out job of covering a modern...
From a charitable standpoint, I am inclined to the belief that you have been "sold a bill of goods" by the alien Australian...
...Exposition to judge from the number of visitors thus far: Belgium's. . . . Price of the Van Cleef & Arpels brooch of overlapping leaves in small diamonds and rubies duplicating one bought by the Duke of Windsor for his Duchess: 225,000 francs ($8,300). . . . Greatest achievement from the standpoint of Exposition engineering: although the fair is in the very centre of Paris, normal city traffic is not interfered with, passes through subterranean tunnels or overhead bridges which completely avoid exposition structures or traffic. . . . Most irrepressibly Parisian novelty shown: a pair of women's patent leather pumps with the tongues...
...have a few) are still amazed at how Lynd could be accurate when dealing with statistics such as the percent of high school graduates today as compared with 30 years ago and so utterly unscientific and biased when dealing with personalities and economic philosophy. From the latter standpoint there is a general consensus of opinion that he found what he expected to find, that we have a cross section of Lynd's mind rather than a true picture of the people of this community...