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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dead. "We know that we are not very high in society, but God loves us. ... O, what would Jesus say if he passed through Marion? He's weepin' at all this scenery." At Gastonia. The Marion murders gave North Carolina its sixth textile tangle now current in the courts. One of the other trials, that of 16 workers accused of murdering the police chief of Gastonia, got going again last week at Charlotte after repeated delays (TIME, Sept. 23). The 16 defendants, mostly Northern organizers of the National Textile Workers' Union (Communist), hired a new lawyer...
...badly hit motors, the worst hit was Chrysler. The stock had a year's high of 135, sold last week down to 52. Before the worst break, Walter P. Chrysler observed that he could see no reason for low prices in automobile stocks, considering current automobile productions and sale. Last week Mr. Chrysler pointed out that nine months' earnings per share were $5.50 (compared to $7.03 for twelve months of 1928). Meanwhile automotive bears talked of competition, saturation, production figures weighted by disproportionate Ford and Chevrolet output, saw no good in horseless carriage securities. To which bulls replied...
Figures covering the Yale Alumni Fund show that about 8,000 graduates contributed during the year ending June 30, 1929, and that since the establishment of the fund in 1890 it has given over four and a half millions to the University for current needs, at the same time building up a permanent endowment almost equal...
...estimate the value of his goods, is the task of each individual producer, a task upon which to no small degree his future, may depend. In accordance with this principle, Harvard is not to be denied the right of establishing whatever tuition fee may seem reasonable. Presumably the current income is calculated to defray merely the yearly running expenses of the institution...
...University to found a chair of German Art and Culture, to be known as the Kuno Francke Professorship. The chair is named in honor of Kuno Francke, the founder and honorary curator of the Germanic Museum, now emeritus professor of German Culture. No incumbent has been named for the current academic year...