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...establishment of local boards of ''patriotic citizens'' throughout the nation to pass on cases of needy veterans for whom the full Bonus would be cashed instanter. Observers sensed that his last proposal was a trial balloon sent up by the national ticket. Robert Low Bacon, 48, oldtime Harvard crewman, is the son of the late Robert Bacon. Ambassador to France and Secretary of State. He is Wet. an easy-going but dogged foe of immediate Bonus payment. In Congress he has been regular, unspectacular...
...last year's stroke; Peter McManus, the baldheaded, 30-year old No. 5 who watched 14 Poughkeepsie regattas from his father's farm on the Hudson and, ten years after he got out of high school, made up his mind to go to college and become a crewman. Princeton, in the east lane, had about the same outside chance as the last Princeton crew which won the Carnegie Cup (1927). It so happened that the start of the race synchronized almost exactly with the start of the Kentucky Derby (see above), but otherwise there was no connection between...
...dividend. Presiding over the meeting was Charles Edward Adams, chairman of United States Industrial Alcohol since 1927, president of Air Reduction Co. (owner of a large minority interest in Alcohol) since 1921. Even were the storm not raging, it is safe to guess that onetime (1902-04) Yale Crewman Adams would have advised curtailment of the dividend, conservation of strength in the long race for profits. For after earnings which rose steadily from $976,193 in 1926 to $4,720,000 in 1929, last year Industrial Alcohol made but $1,104,000. Simultaneously, it took a $3,000,000 inventory...
...terms. It seems that, in order to promote a knowledge of practical criticism the instructor in that course gives out themes required in his course to the students for correction and "remarks." For instance, Mr. Freshworthy takes the theme on "The Harvard Student as a Cynic," written by Mr. Crewman to "criticise," while Mr. Freshworthy's theme is sniffed at by somebody else, Mr. Crewman receives back his theme heavily scored and underscored with marginal notes of "wretched grammar," "very bad taste," "atrocious English," utter lack of sense and want of connection." Remarks: "It is hard to conceive...