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...retail selling agencies as fast as they are discovered and closed up. . . . Probably a much greater number of those who patronize speakeasies can afford to do so than was true in the case of the saloon. Thus the closing of the saloon has been a gain even if speakeasies abound...
...undoubtedly in the trough of a moral as well as of a business depression, not that there is any connection between them. The high moral fervor of the war period has been followed, very naturally by a cynical reaction. The evidences abound on all sides. What Agnes Repplier called the decay of reticence, and what others call by a harsher name, indicates a general breaking down of standards. The way students steal books from college libraries is another evidence of a general moral slump. These evidences cannot be entirely dissociated from political corruption, unscrupulous business methods, racketeering, and general lawlessness...
...investigation of the tutorial system and General Examinations, it will produce results which in themselves will be well worth the effort. The ever-changing Harvard of today cannot suffer from intelligent study, and the Student Council can justify its existence by showing its ability in a time when problems abound Should it succeed, its foresight will be justified...
...court. Manufacturers?particularly of seaplanes and amphibians?were incredulous. Their whole appeal to the private flyer, upon whom they depend for much of their business, is based on the inducement of flying between city and vacation camp where lakes furnish easy, safe landing places without cost. Such lakes abound in New Jersey...
That Mr. Durant should become active again at the age of 69 is no surprise to the industry. Of Bull Durant legends abound. It is said that he persuaded G. M. directors to vote $100,000 for research on a refrigerator "just so they'd have more to worry about." It was he who, through John Jacob Raskob, then secretary to Pierre Samuel du Pont, interested the "Wilmington crowd" in G. M. He is one of the Federal Reserve's oldest, loudest, fiercest foes. He claims to have visited President Hoover a year ago last spring and warned...