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...resigned as chairman of Marshall Field & Co., in which he holds more stock than even the Field estate, replaced Samuel Insull as chairman of Commonwealth Edison Co., Public Service Co. of Northern Illinois and Peoples Gas Light & Coke Co. A $450,000,000 company, Commonwealth Edison has a virtual monopoly on electric power sales in Chicago's 210 square miles, has never missed paying a dividend. Public Service is a $226,000,000 company serving 6,000 sq. mi. of territory including Cook County outside of Chicago, north to the Wisconsin state line, south to Kankakee, west...
...themselves, too, and several colleges in the west are fast coming into prominence in this respect. Ardent adherents may exclaim that Harvard's law training is as fine today as ever and that the years of tradition should in no whit be changed, but such sentiments are equivalent to virtual reaction. With the inception of a new housekeeper comes the obvious time to clean house and the law faculty might well profit by such time-tested, if homely, anioms...
...Turkey and Greece, made at the time of Sanctions and considered by II Duce as menacing Italy; 3) easy going by Italy from now on in the Spanish Civil War, and even easier going as to the Balearic Islands, which Britain has feared Italy might seize any day; 4) virtual abandonment by Britain of her refortification efforts in such Mediterranean bases as Malta, which Italy commands from the air today...
Newsstand sales in the British Isles are the virtual monopoly of a Pickwickian middle-class firm on the walls of whose offices hang life-size portraits of members of the family who died for Queen (Victoria) & Country. It was not a matter of direct government censorship last week but of Pickwickian family pride that for the first time all sales of U. S. newspapers and magazines which mentioned King Edward and Mrs. Simpson (see p. 16) abruptly ceased in England. This was such risky tampering with freedom of the press that those responsible retired, self-abashed, behind closed doors. Queries...
...virtual sell-out ticket prices for the Leverett Dance tonight have been raised to $2.50 for couples and $1.50 for stags. Added attraction of the evening is Phill Claff, accordian specialist, who will perform during dinner...