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During the present year this item will be more than offset by the reduction in the price of meals in the various dining halls, a reduction which is estimated at about $150,000, and which calls for the utmost economy in the administration of the dining halls. The reduction in rates made at the outset of the year cut the weekly rate in the Houses for 21 meals from $10.50 to $0., and in the, Freshman Dining Halls from...
...from wealthy Senator Couzens in a game of draw poker. As Republican floor leader for five years his only speech was: "I move that the Senate do now adjourn." But the Vice-Presidency and the Mayflower Hotel worked a great change in him. He took his job with utmost seriousness. He ceased to be the friendly backslapper. He began making dull pompous speeches on all public occasions. Declared Vice President-elect John Nance Garner...
...present system of medical attention in vogue in our colleges. In fact, the plan is nothing more than Stillman Infirmary, grown up, and applied to society as a whole. Each grows out of the same basic facts, namely, that the physical condition of our people is of the utmost importance; that too often the individual in need of medical attention holds back in the face of the fees which medical care and hospitals entail; that these tremendous fees can be eliminated by everyone sharing some part of the total costs...
...Whitaker Wright began to float companies devoted to ambiguous enterprises. By intermingling their affairs and complicating their books to the utmost, he was able to rob his investors fantastically. Shrewd businessmen who were directors of his London & Globe Co. believed in his infallibility as unquestioningly as did the associates of the late Ivar Kreuger and Samuel Insull. In 1903 London & Globe Co. crashed. Whitaker Wright was charged with issuing false balance sheets. So complicated was the financial maze he had built that no lawyer in England wanted the case. Rufus Isaacs agreed to prosecute it. For days he stood...
Viewing with Alarm. These accomplishments have not silenced many a Louisianan who views the Long record with utmost alarm. The "Kingfish's" critics point out that he has raised the State's indebtedness from $11,000,000 to more than $100,000,000. The public payrolls have been loaded down with his fawning followers. Under him New Orleans has slipped from second to fifth among U. S. ports. Prisons are so overcrowded that last week Governor Allen had to release hundreds of offenders to save money. The gasoline tax has been upped from...