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Refusal of Loans. It is therefore very debatable whether any Federal Reserve bank would or could refuse a loan to a member in good standing. Says W. Randolph Burgess, assistant Federal Reserve agent in New York writing of the Reserve System in 1927*: "A Reserve bank cannot tell from the nature of its loans what its money will be used for. . . . It is thus impossible for a Reserve bank to dictate how its credit shall be put to employment. . . . The specific use of credit is the business of the individual member and nonmember bank. . . . What the Reserve banks do primarily...
...trials held on Wednesday C. H. Burgess '31, D. I. Cooke '31, D. L. Landy '30, and L. M. Wallstein '30 were selected to oppose Marquette University in a debate next Wednesday...
High Jump--P. S. Brown '30, F. T. Burgess '30, G. W. Kuehn...
Slender and inky black President Charles Dunbar Burgess King of Liberia welcomes nowadays many a white U. S. youth arriving to earn his fortune on the new and mighty plantations of U. S. Rubberman Harvey Firestone (TIME, Dec. 20, 1926). One such ambitious colonizer was Thomas B. Wells, 26, a Yale graduate. With his young wife he recently went out to what seemed a promising job on one of the Firestone plantations. There he contracted malaria. Prudent, he and his wife left Liberia, speeded home. Last week they were crossing the Atlantic aboard the French Line's majestic...
...Manhattan Mrs. August Belmont (Eleanor Robson), famed philanthropist, onetime actress (1897-1910), called a conference to discuss nurses and nursing. Dr. May Ayres Burgess, Director of the Grading Committee of Nursing Schools, flayed the type of girl now entering the profession. "The minimum educational standards are low," she stated. "New York State is a serious offender. The legal requirement is one year of high school, which is lower than the requirement placed by most department stores or business houses for the education of their clerks, typists and saleswomen. . . . The time has come for raising the quality of women admitted into...