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...mind that it would be "a cash register for German reparations" (TIME, Nov. 25, 1929), not a competitor. All this the work of Tycoon McGarrah has changed. The "cash register" has become a brother and nobody minds, is growing bigger every day without exciting fear. "The public is all wrong about the B.L.S.," said Tycoon McGarrah last week. "It imagines that the chief function of the institution is to collect German payments and distribute them to the debtor nations. This now amounts to only 20% of the business of the B. I. S.I) With the joy of a great...
...subsequent announcement that Yale has also been induced to become Harkness-minded. Printed matter from the office of Robert Lamb, the Ivy Lee of Cambridge, and more oblique declarations from President A. Lawrence Lowell (who never makes statements for publication, and so has never at once been wrong and on record for it) have sung in almost lyric phrases the boons and ueufructs of the $15,000,000 which will eventually be spent on the project. Harvard undergraduates, who, after all, are more intimately concerned with the house plan than any one else, rose grandly in rebellion, and there ensued...
Like the U. S. Grain Stabilization Corp., the Canadian Cooperative Wheat Producers Ltd. (central selling agency for the Canadian Wheat Pool) has guessed wrong, held too many millions of bushels too long, expecting a rise in World grain prices which has turned out to be a fall. Approximately 100,000,000 bushels of wheat are held by the Canadian Pool, approximately 110,000,000 bushels by the U. S. group. What to do? Liquidate at present prices, the lowest in the history of the Winnipeg Grain Exchange...
...want you to correct one thing," said Mme Dzhugashvili, manifesting some excitement. "They talk a lot about Soso's being born in Lilo, but that's entirely wrong! . . . Soso was born in Gori. . . . I'm his mother and I ought to know! . . . Soso will be 51 eight days after Christmas old style. I don't know what date it would be by the new way of reckoning.* I never could learn...
Halfway between Artist Lynd Ward (God's Man, Madman's Drum} and Cartoonist Milt Gross (He Done Her Wrong} comes Satirist William Cropper. Without Ward's arty symbolism or Gross's simple artfulness, he tells a straight story, then horses it a little...