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...passage by the Argentine Congress of a law, forcing employers and employers to contribute 5% of salaries paid and received to a general pension fund, started a nation-wide strike...
...guests at the Bankers' Club indicated the nation-wide and authoritative support this effort will receive. They included: Dr. Ernest M. Hopkins, President of Dartmouth; Ray Stannard Baker; Herbert S. Houston, editor of Our World; General Tasker H. Bliss; Dr. William H. Welch of Johns Hopkins; Governor A. C. Ritchie of Maryland; T. I. Parkinson, Acting Dean of Columbia; Dr. Alexander Smith, representing Dr. John Grier Hibben, President of Princeton; John G. Agar, George Barr Baker and Edgar Rickard of the Commission for Relief in Belgium Educational Foundation; Van Lear Black; Robert S. Brookings, President of the Institute of Economics...
...although Liuscott may be switched from centerfield to the box. Goodwin, at short stop, was largely responsible for four of the Exeter tallies against Cushing on Wednesday, when he poled a two-bagger with the bases loaded, and made it good for the circuit when the Cushing fielder heaved wide to the plate. His fielding was the feature of the game with the seconds...
...officer in charge of the Citizens' Military Training Camp Affairs for the New England states, may I take the liberty of correcting through your columns, an erroneous impression that has gained wide circulation through the colleges of New England to the effect that the camps are for "boys". We have found college men glad to take advantage of the camp and training when the proposition is explained to them accurately. At Williams College, for example, where a faculty member is aiding us in a proper presentation of the matter, we already have a good enrollment for this summer's camp...
Died. Mrs. Pearl Gardner, 38, "biggest woman in the world"; at Tulsa. She weighed 700 pounds, measured 38J/2 inches from shoulder to shoulder. A special coffin, two feet longer than it was wide, was constructed...