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...Angeles, Calif., the Bureau of Power & Light announced last month: "Our residential light curves begin to drop at 9 o'clock at this season of the year, and from 9 to 11 the drop is swift and steady. Before 12 o'clock practically all of Los Angeles is asleep...
General Bramwell Booth of the Salvation Army was quick to appreciate Edward John Higgins. The Higgins rise to power was therefore swift-winged. In the U. S. he helped Commissioner Evangeline Booth. In China he helped natives. Ten years ago he started helping the General most efficiently. Today he is General. Unfortunately, so is General Booth...
...Arthur Cutten of the Board of Trade, a group of Chicago capitalists organized, and last week announced, Chicago Corp., a $60,000,000 midwest investment trust. The directorate of the new corporation is of the top stratum of Chicago's financial world. Packers are represented by Edward F. Swift, vice president of Swift & Co., and F. Edson White, president of Armour & Co. Merchants include George B. Everitt, president of Montgomery Ward and James Simpson, president of Marshall Field. The present Marshall Field conducts the investment house, Field, Glore & Co., which financed the issue. Industrialists on the new board include...
...Professor is not the swift motivated story one might expect from so incisive a dramatist as Sudermann. Rather it is a leisurely commentary on German University life, with its Bismarckian politics, Junker fraternities, duels and drinking bouts - everything, in. short, but intellectualism. To point the narrative Sudermann projects a philosophical genius into the stolid pussyfooting faculty, and predicates the dangerous futility of his in dependent thinking. That Professor Sieburth should have independent ideas strikes the faculty as bad enough, but that he should live his ideas is intolerable...
...Swift & Co. (packers...