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...concert singer, police reporter, magazine contributor, versifier, political writer. Framed over his desk is his favorite definition of advertising, a quotation from Fred Patzel, 1926 World Champion Hog Caller: "You've got to have appeal as well as power in your voice. You've got to con-.vince the hogs you have something for them...
...doctors may employ it to cure human disease. Sir Chandrasekhara Ven kata Raman discovered in 1928 that when monochromatic light shines on a trans parent substance like quartz, chloroform, water, the wavelength of some of the scattered light is changed. Thus what was originally a pure yellow may con tain green, blue. This is now known as the Raman effect, has been used as a proof of the new quantum theory of light...
American Co., San Francisco holding com pany. About a year later, American Co. passed into the control of Goldman Sachs Trading Corp. which bought entire con trol of C. F. Childs & Co. for $3,187,000. Meanwhile, Bond-broker Childs formed Childs Securities Corp., began dealing again in government bonds. Last week it was rumored that Gold man Sachs Trading was offering to sell C. F. Childs & Co. for a comparatively small price. Then the clay after the Prince & Whitely failure the announcement was made that Mr. Childs had bought back the firm's name, that Goldman Sachs Trading...
Postponed. Because Great Britain's Labor government is split on the question whether to experiment with an Empire tariff scheme (Scotland's MacDonald being pro and Yorkshire's Snowden con), the Prime Minister, in formally opening the Imperial Conference last week, weasled on its major economic problem, stressed "peace & disarmament" (the only field in which his cabinet has acquired kudos) and temporarily postponed proceedings by setting a future plenary conference session vaguely "some six or seven days hence...
...agonies of doubt as come only to those who are at once religious by nature and intellectually robust. But serenity returned when God came back stripped of obscurantist makeup. Harry Fosdick was graduated head of his class. Third Crisis was essentially physical, for never again was the Fosdick faith con founded. Dr. Fosdick's is not a brilliant mind : Dr. Fosdick achieves brilliance. No preacher can equal his combination of simplicity and polish. This he gets by working 10 to 14 hours at a sermon. As a student in Union Theological Seminary he worked 14 hours a day. Besides...