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...could be called either a success or a failure according to which cities, periods of years, or figures you choose to take. The figures on drunkenness show the greatest diversity of all and the effect upon them of war, prohibition, and poverty can be measured only with the utmost caution...
...said to have pneumonia. With Parliament about to reassemble this week Japan's politicians looked for a chance to reassert themselves as the War Minister lay abed. Japan's new Foreign Minister, Mr. Koki Hirota, recently her Ambassador to Moscow, hoped for a chance to launch with caution a somewhat more conciliatory policy toward Russia...
...sportsman of the week goes to Coach Stubbs, the Harvard hockey coach. At a critical moment in Saturday's game, with one Princeton man in the penalty box, and shortly after a questionable goal which he refused to contest, he removed the outstanding Harvard man on the ice to caution him against over-aggressive hip-checking and roughness. --The Princetonian...
...story. Once in control of the bank, Stillman determined to make it Manhattan's biggest. In two years he ran up its deposits from 12 to 30 million, by the simple expedient (according to Winkler) of quadrupling its gold re serve. The other secret of his success was caution: he made his piles not by financial forays but by carrying a flag of truce. A year after his death (1918) the National City Bank had ballooned to billion-dollar size. Stillman's only intimate was Lawyer John W. Sterling, crotchety bachelor who carried punctuality to the split second...
...tapered off last year to $12,000,000, partly because the German Government offered easier credit terms. Last week Administration officials spoke of Soviet purchases from the U. S. to total $350,000,000 within the next twelvemonth, but several Republican Senators plaintively urged caution. "I have no objection to recognition," said Pennsylvania's Reed, "if it does not call for the lending of money to the Soviet Union by any [U. S.] Government agency...