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Keen observers suspected from the first that something was amiss, because the "scoop" on the $420,000,000 offer was given to the Associated Press. Previously the inside news track on everything connected with the second Dawes Committee has been held by the New York Herald Tribune. This paper received as an exclusive "scoop" the paramount story that J. P. Morgan and Owen D. Young would represent the U.S. in Paris (TIME, Jan. 28). By way of humble return for so great a bounty, the Herald Tribune was the only paper to print, on its first page and in full...
...present Student Council is to be strongly commended for facing squarely the problem of paying off debts incurred through none of its own doing. At the same time, however, that past Student Council deficits are being wiped out it might not be amiss to investigate the whole tangle of official undergraduate finance. Centralized and responsible control of all class and general undergraduate funds offers the most logical solution of future difficulties...
Nitrates can also be used to make fertilizer for farmers. Electric power never comes amiss. Hence the decade of debate, which was between men who thought the Government should keep and run Muscle Shoals to benefit farmers and men who thought the Government should sell or lease the project to a private operator. Among the bidders for Muscle Shoals have been Henry Ford, the American Cyanamid Co., the Union Carbide Co., Elon H. Hooker, the Underwood Power Co., the Consolidated Power Co., the Air Nitrates Corp., the Muscle Shoals Fertilizer Co., the Alabama Power...
...Ambassador to Italy, suave Henry Prather Fletcher. Last week President James Gilmore Fletcher of the mining corporations and his co-owning brothers, G. Fred & D. Watson Fletcher, all of Manhattan, were irate. President Fletcher dashed to Washington to inform Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg that much was amiss in the valley of the purling Pis-Pis River. The Fletcher mines had been seized, he declared, by the forces of General Augusto Calderon Sandino, whom. U. S. Marines have been hunting vainly up and down Nicaragua for many a month (TIME...
...some interest to those who follow the sporting items in TIME to know that a remarkable long distance runner has recently arrived in London from South Africa and it will not be amiss to keep tab on English dailies and weeklies till the end of the present month. The name of the runner is Arthur F. Newton, who last July shattered the world's record for 100 miles by covering that distance in 14 hrs. and 43 minutes. . . . Newton was educated at Bedford and left England 21 years ago to farm in Rhodesia, South Africa when only a youth...