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...their students; and all over the country they are doing it. In the parlance of trade, the colleges are in a buyers' market. As Mr. Lowell, of Harvard, puts it: "The idea that going to college is one of the inherent rights of man seems to have obtained a baseless foothold in the minds of many people. To select the fit and devote our energies to them is our duty to the public for whose service we exist...
That Catholics may in any discernible future dominate U. S. politics, Author Moore believes a conjecture as baseless as the suggestion that they now do so, because, he says, the Catholic Church is not making large numerical gains, because its membership includes such a small proportion of political leaders. Further conclusions: "The fear that Roman Catholics, even as a minority, may capture the government of the United States, appears to be unfounded. . . . The issue today is not whether America is to be made Catholic but whether America ... is to be made Christian...
...mergers in the making. Concrete bullish news, in addition to the moratorium, was the favorable decision to Radio Corp. (see p. 12), the raising of the wholesale cigaret price, the declaration of the regular dividends by Westinghouse, Anaconda, Baltimore & Ohio. Stocks with interests in South America soared on a baseless rumor that the President would soon make an important announcement regarding credits to Latin American countries (see p. 10). Long deferred investment buying appeared. Vivid tales were told of big bears trapped, fretting behind the bars of higher prices. One venerable member of the Exchange was heard to sing that...
With the customary lack of authentic information, another rumor of President Lowell's resignation has appeared in the headlines. Prompt denials of the story made by University officials serve to discredit this type of baseless news, several similar exhibitions of which have been made in the Boston press during the last few years...
...that the name of small, smart Isidor Jacob Kresel ? Seabury counsel, onetime director of, lawyer for and borrower from the defunct bank ? was frequently brought into the damning Bank of U. S. testimony. Forthwith, Counsel Kresel demanded that he be subpoenaed to defend himself against "baseless statements designed to reflect upon me." The bank's officers went to court to get Lawyer Steuer disqualified as their inquisitor...