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First, the high tariff on sugar (a Republican measure) gave Chairman Cordell Hull of the Democratic National Committee a chance to abuse the Republicans for passing it and thus making sugar speculation behind the tariff wall both tempting and safe. President Harding, alert and cautious fearing that there might perhaps be something rotten in the state of Fordney-McCumberism, promptly ordered an investigation of the situation by the Federal Tariff Commission (which had already started one of its own) to see if he would be authorized to reduce the sugar duty as provided by the law. As the investigation will...
...parallax from the two fixed points of Professor Sidney Thomas' School at New Haven and the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis. The Naval Academy is orthodox and oldfashioned; the New Haven School is advanced and experimental. At Professor Thomas' there are no books, but rather wall maps, and mathematical games; no paper pads, but slates. Competition is emphasized; the clever rewarded; the dull punished. And, more than all, there is Professor Thomas. Admiral Goodrich would reproduce the system as well as may be without the Professor. He would weed out the unfit and set them to their...
...mercy of the latter There is in this book something more than a minute and ruthless picture of Babbitts at play. Miss Gale is more romantic than realistic. She likes to look at the other side of the picture, even though it may be turned to the wall. There is no tragedy here except the unconscious tragedy of the Crumbs. The beauty of Leda and Barnaby, and the "faint perfume" of their love, rises above all the reek and crassness of the Crumb materialism. If anything, Miss Gale errs on the side of the sentimental. She does not allow...
...somewhat rhetorical aftermath of the Piggly Wiggly corner has been of interest in the Street. President Saunders' fulminations against "Wall Street" in the press must be taken as a rather overdone attempt to terrify the shorts into covering at an admittedly manipulated price. To those not short of Piggly Wiggly, the episode is not without humor. Mr. Saunders was evidently quite serious when he declared that he would never permit his stock to be traded in upon the Stock Exchange. As the financial editor of The New York Times declared, " This is a body blow, but the Stock Exchange...
Samuel M. Vauclain, President of the Baldwin Locomotive Works: " In a speech to the British Empire Chamber of Commerce (in Manhattan), I stated that unless English business men attained the American ideal of price, quality and service, I would continue to favor a tariff wall so high that the sun would not shine in New York until 10 o'clock in the morning...