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...Reserve Bank of New York and the Bank of England are made cooperatively in order that the British rate may always be slightly higher and thus avoid heavy gold exports to this country. New York Reserve rate is now 3%%, and a rise to 4% would consequently threaten the British gold supply and the sterling gold standard...
...powerful defensive play of the forward line, with Coolidge, left end, playing the stellar role, was the feature of the initial encounter. Not once did St. John's threaten to score, never approaching nearer than Harvard's 35-yard line. So superior were the scrub forwards that even the visitors kidking game was unable to function, kicks being constantly blocked...
...crop promise to exceed even those of this year. Except for the U. S. beet sugar industry, the same general situation of excessive production exists throughout the sugar world. As a result, sugar prices, though temporarily held up by the canning and preserving season this summer, threaten to continue in the doldrums for some time...
...more; if Holland then 1,750,000 more, and if Belgium 2,000,000 more? that is, if we had devoted the same care to the possibilities of the soil, as they have done in these countries, there would be no unemployment problem of any magnitude to disturb and threaten our national life. It is right that each man should ask himself, landlord, farmer, and laborer, is this scheme just and fair...
...Department of Labor, through its Children's Bureau, took the parental bull directly and single-handedly by the horns. Its Dr. I. A. Thom issued commandments on child management: "Don't bribe. Don't make promises which you know you cannot or do not intend to keep. Don't threaten a child in order to obtain control over...