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...Stewart Baker, who like his father Stephen became president of the bank at the early age of 34, has kept his venerable institution abreast of the times. In the boom days of 1929 the Bank of the Manhattan Co. surrounded itself with affiliates (International Acceptance Bank, New York Title & Mortgage Co., International Manhattan Co. etc.) and started acquisition of a group of banks (County Trust Co. of White Plains, the Corning Trust). Two years ago it turned with the tide, made International Manhattan Co. give up dealing in securities. A year ago it divorced New York Title & Mortgage...
...strongest tendency is for all schools to give greater attention to the discoveries of psychology and pedagogy, and to attempt to keep more nearly abreast of educational knowledge. It may soon be true that all teachers and schools will have become "progressive...
...afternoon last week a crowd gathered before the locked doors of Manhattan's Hippodrome on Sixth Avenue. At 5 p. m. there were two lines five abreast-one stretching down 43rd Street to Fifth Avenue, the other along 44th Street. At 5:30, 6,000 people got in the building...
...soldiery passing briskly back and forth through troubled districts gave the appearance of a quiet mobilization. Emergency first aid stations, with white stretchers placed conspicuously outside, did much to soothe a fevered populace. On the cobblestones of the vast Place de la Republique, mounted hussars eight or ten abreast, the "Mouquin Merry-go-round," trotted slowly about sweeping little knots of agitators before them. At the end of the day there had been no riot, no new martyrs set up. Paris had been saved from herself with beautiful dexterity...