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...remained to be invited to the Conference of Major Industries. Meat-packers announced a list of seven speakers who should interpret, jointly and severally, "The Current Situation." Impressive were names, titles, themes, as follows: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, President, American Construction Council (Building and Construction); Harold Higgins Franklin Swift, Swift & Co. (Meat-packing); Myron Charles Taylor, Chairman Finance Committee, U. S. Steel Corp. (Iron and Steel); Charles Franklin Kettering, President, General Motors Research Corp. (Automobiles); Walter Sherman Gifford, President A. T. & T. (Communication); Frank Brett Noyes, President, The Associated Press (Printing and Publishing); Charles Edwin Mitchell, President, National City Bank (Finance...
...Ritz -.Tower, Manhattan, journeyed last week over 200 manufacturers and advertisers of these products. When each and every one had come to order, the first general U. S. fashion conference was declared to be in session. Experts and analysts explained and prophesied the swift revolutions of fashion. Foremost among fashion students, Manhattan's Amos Parrish (TIME, Aug. 20) distributed credit for notable efforts to make the U. S. fashion-conscious. Mr. Parrish praised...
...falls on every member. The word of a cadet is unquestioned, and it must be perfect surely. It is a small thing to report oneself for violations of the Honor Code, for any man may unintentionally fail to accomplish some intention, or overstep his bounds. True the punishment is swift and sure. This is the most cold-blooded place for discipline that the Lord created. But, once over the offence is completely forgotten; wiped...
...Argentines, there was no star. All the Argentine mounts were superlatively swift, a little easier to handle than the U. S. ponies, though perhaps that was partly due to the way they were ridden. Argentine ponies, like Argentine players, get their training on cow-ranches; that makes them tougher, quicker to turn and readier to use their weight in riding off. They are not broken to polo until they are four or five years old; by this time they are stronger than ponies bred in England or on the playing fields of Westbury will ever...
Thomas Cochran, partner in J. P. Morgan & Co., arrived last week on the swift Mauretania. Reporters wasted no time in cornering him. Said he: "I have a statement ready. It is six words long. Take it down carefully. 'A singed cat dreads the fire.' That...