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Harvard's first string team went through some intensive drilling on kicking yesterday afternoon in preparation for the Buffalo game Saturday...
Outmoded Ethics. Before accusing Count Uchida of threatening the peace of the world, his critics should remember Japan's position?an overpopulated, earthquake-ridden string of islands faced with grave unemployment and a rickety currency, with little chance of squeezing her citizens through the immigration restrictions of the West. Hundreds of thousands of Japanese believe that rich, undeveloped Manchuria is their only hope of salvation. When Count Uchida was born, what Japan is doing now would not have excited protest. When Count Uchida was nine years old, the Prime Minister of Britain was a brilliant, dapper Jew, Benjamin Disraeli, later...
...Group banking, in which a holding company controls one big bank and a group of smaller banks which draw upon the experience and facilities of the central institution. Example: Marine Midland Corp. with 22 banks built around Buffalo's Marine Trust Co. 3) Chain banking, in which a string of small banks are controlled by a holding company or individual but having no kingpin institution...
Tied to the U. S. acceptance of this bid was a string: the conference must not discuss Reparations, War Debts or specific tariffs. Left open for debate were such matters as silver (but not its remonetization), trade barriers, embargoes, import and export quotas, international credit and tariff policies. The practical, though remote purpose of the conference was, somehow to set world trade going again...
...iris is a delicate, loosely meshed mat of tiny blood vessels, nerves, muscles and flimsy connective tissue. A circular system of muscles around the pupil opening acts as a draw string to decrease the size of the pupil in bright light. Radiating from the outer circumference of the iris to the pupil are muscles which draw the pupil open in dull light, like the pull cords of a curtain...