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...market prices. By an ingenious system of pyramiding (the issuance of non-interest bearing, legal tender, industrial notes on property already acquired) the whole of the world's wealth could be acquired for about 20% of its value without cheating anybody. What have we finally? A great world-wide producing corporation. The entire population would live in a few cities. Every bit of land would produce whatever it was best fitted for. Likewise a gigantic civil service would put every man in his proper place. If a few odd hundreds of thousands of acres of land were needed...
...Manhattan, the annual convention of the National Association of Manufacturers "resoluted" on an unusually wide variety of topics. Its "Platform of American Industry, 1924" advocated freedom for individual initiative and a halt in governmental control of business; deplored "dishonesty in high places"; defended the Supreme Court; condemned unnecessary taxation; favored the compilation and distribution of current trade information; declared tor complete freedom in making and maintaining voluntary employment agreements, without respect to compulsory membership or nonmembership in any organization; urged fair treatment for the railways and continuance of the Transportation Act; stood for the admission of immigrants economically needed, subject...
...biggest shadow in the world? 235,000 miles high, 105 miles wide, and 75 miles thick at its densest part?fell across San Diego today, the shadow of the moon as it crossed the face...
Excepting a few good men who are likely to win first places, the Freshmen are sully lacking in the strong second and third place scorers which are so essential for a winning team. The crimson team lost practically all its meets this season by wide margins, losing to Andover, 80 to 45; to Exeter, 76 1-3 to 49 1-2; Huntington School, 35 to 33; and, last week, to Princeton, 86 to 48. Early in the season, the crimson won a combined meet against Boston Latin and English High Schools, although no score was kept...
...body of Robert Raisbeck Proctor '27, whose disappearance has caused a wide search during the last nine days, was discovered about 5 o'clock yesterday morning by Patrolman Patrick J. O'Neil, of the Metropolitan District Police. Patrolman O'Neil found the body floating at a point in the river just below the Newell boathouse...