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...Wickersham served as Attorney-General from 1909 to 1913 in the cabinet of President Taft, and is now a member of the firm of Cadwalader, Wickersham and Taft of 40 Wall street, New York. He received his degree of L.L.B. at the University of Pennsylvania in 1880, and was awarded an honorary degree of L.L.B. at Harvard in 1921. Besides being a member of the New York State Bar Association, the American Bar Association, and a past president of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, Mr. Wickersham is a trustee of the Carnegie Institute...
...face and a type of bald head which seems to be the common affliction of able bankers. He is 60 years of age and for about 40 of those years he has devoted himself entirely to higher mathematics, law, and the study of finance. In "the City" (London's Wall Street section), Mr. McKenna is Chairman of the London Joint City and Midland Bank, one of the greatest British banks. But he is more than this; he is looked upon as one of the greatest authorities on budgetary finance and banking in the world and holds the enviable reputation...
Almost every one knows that it is possible to introduce bismuth into the stomach and then, by use of the Xray, to obtain a photograph of the stomach's outlines. The method has become invaluable for the diagnosis of such conditions as ulcers of the stomach-wall. It has long been felt that valuable information could be had regarding the gall-bladder if some method could be found of introducing a substance into the gall-bladder which would make possible the photographing of its outline. Drs. Warren H. Cole and Evarts A. Graham of the Washington University Medical School...
...Professor Vigard, of the University of Christiania, Norway, claims he has discovered another and better reason. Just outside the earth's atmosphere, he says, is a wall of crystalline particles of nitrogen. This is what makes the sky blue. It also explains, he thinks, why radio waves follow the contour of the earth, instead of flying off from it at a tangent. This would seem to indicate that radio communication with other planets will always be impossible...
More often than has been the case for many years, Wall Street, which is supposed to be something of a "barometer" for the course of trade and industry, has been asking: "Where do we go from here...