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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Part One deals with expenses. Low for total expenses, including personal and the four basic charges of tuition, lodging, board, and health, is quoted at $1000, average at $1295. College bills, known as term-bills, are payable in five installments, due at registration, the end of November, the end of January, the end of April, and July...
...American money has been kept from falling into the hands of swindlers through SEC operations to date. . . . And the amount of other millions of fraudulent, or semi-fraudulent investments deterred by SEC activities from even trying to 'get by' can only be estimated. . . . I do not think basic soundness of our markets has been impaired by restrictions for the protection of customers and lessening of the speculative tinge. It may be-who can tell?-that there will be sharper short-term deviations-fluctuations that concern the speculator rather than the investor-but I think the danger of runaway...
...edge of a desolate section of fog-ridden moors, the grey, ancient English prison of Bleakmore was almost impregnable, had harbored so many generations of convicts that it smelled "of the primal basic filth of old humanity, of the things forgotten when the oldest cities began." Although fogs sometimes came down while convicts were working in the quarries and on the moors (blotting out the prison road in an hour), convicts who escaped under cover of it were easily caught because all outlets were guarded. When a young convict asked, "What's the chances for a stoppo [jailbreak] ?" oldtimers...
This year an eminent Italian surgeon. Dr. Andrea Majocchi, described his visit to the Clinic:* "The organization and scrupulous division of labor are basic features of every truly American institution. Hotels, hospitals, public offices, warehouses-all work toward the same end: avoiding as much as possible the weakening and separation of resources and means. All function in the same way. The same working methods obtain at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research as at the Baldwin Locomotive Works at Philadelphia, the Chicago stockyards, and St. Mary's Hospital at Rochester...
This blunt admission, distressingly crude, had its elegant Japanese counterpart in a speech to the Diet last week by Premier Prince Konoye. "I think there are many persons in the Chinese Government who understand Japan, including General Chiang Kai-shek," purred the Premier. "I think it should be the basic keynote of Japan's China policy to make the Chinese race and the Chinese Government return to their original nature as an Oriental people." After explaining that Communism is un-Oriental. while tactfully omitting to mention that the Chinese Communists have now tentatively joined forces with the Chinese Government...