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Early editions of Science & Health have long commanded high prices from sensa-tion-mongers who have been planning to circulate the more startling passages. Photostat departments at public libraries com- plain that they are overwhelmed by the demand. Meanwhile Christian Science spokesmen declare that their chief interest in the vestal bill was their desire to protect their newspapers and magazines throughout the world...
From those who lend money for com- mercial enterprises, the Industrial Revolution in the 18th Century erased the last stigma; banking became a noble, honored profession. But much longer did there remain feeling against the moneylender who finances wage-earners with little loans. In 1928, Wall Street was genuinely surprised to hear that the old, conservative house of Lee, Higginson & Co. was offering stock in Household Finance Corp., a company whose business consists of lending $100 to $300 at 2½% a month...
...well supported by the interest which he still holds in the Union & Leader. To succeed Col. Knox, Publisher Hearst named Thomas J. White, vice president of International Magazine Co., Inc., onetime employe of J. P. Morgan & Co.'s export department. His first task will be to com plete a careful reduction in personnel, ordered last fortnight by Publisher Hearst...
...foreign cars, Minerva and Isotta Fraschini being the only importations. Isotta bodies are made by famed Castagna of Milan. President of the U. S. Isotta sales company is Ugo V. D'An-nunzio, son of Italy's Poet-Soldier Gabriele D'Annunzio. Short, plump, light-com-plexioned, modest, 43, Son D'Annunzio came to the U. S. in 1917 to supervise the manufacture of Caproni bombing planes at Fisher Body plant. He returns to Italy once a year, spends evenings discussing aviation and literature with his father. Italians remember that Son Ugo was a child prodigy...
...Tilton's speech came during the first day's session, which was announced as a conference between the A. N. A. and Government officials. Secretary of Com merce Lamont made a speech in which he deplored "a very great lack of knowledge on the part of our people generally of the Department [of Commerce] and its organization and what it has to offer in the way of exact information on almost every phase of business, every industry from all over the world...