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Greek citizens who did not invest in Insull securities in the past may have a chance to do so in the future. United Pressman Anthony Kedras reported from Athens last week that Mr. Insull was ready to confer with a group of fascinated Greek bankers anxious to exploit Greek railroads, draining projects, electric concerns in the Insull manner...
Chosen by the United States to confer with experts from other nations in preparation of a program for the World Economic Conference, J. H. Williams '18, professor of Economics, was in a preliminary meeting with Secretaries Stimson Mills, and Chapin, at Washington, yesterday afternoon...
...Widener budget, any readjustment would be disturbing. But to the uninitiated these questions seem to require serious attention and a full answer. If the 'House Libraries are inadequate, why must that discovery be made only after the reading period has begun? Why cannot the House and Widener Librarians confer, with reading lists before them, and come to some informed decision? These loom prominent in the undergraduate view of the problem. They will not be answered by unexplained denials and references to higher authority...
...high teas and staghunt dinners. But the genius of witty, companionable von Schleicher is to keep on good or at least civil terms with Germans of every party except the Communists. This genius was amazingly shown last week when General von Schleicher barely failed to induce Adolf Hitler to confer with him-the only logical subject of conversation being terms on which the Nazi (Fascist) Party might agree to support the von Schleicher Cabinet...
...this instance the Overseers did not consent that the Corporation should proceed to an election until February 25. They appointed a committee to confer with the Corporation about the definition of the president's duties and continued an inconclusive discussion of that question. It is difficult to explain this delay of nearly five months except on the theory that the Overseers were disturbed by a sense of impending change and a feeling of uncertainty. Questions of policy were implicitly bound up with the selection of the new president, and it could certainly be said that the issues were numerous...