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...should participate in politics ... as the champion of great and fundamental issues. . . ." Getting down to cases. Professor John Kelley Norton of Columbia's Teacher's College beat a dead horse when he flayed the banker who was supposed to evade taxes and starve education. Retiring Presi dent Joseph Rosier let fly at the R. F. C. for refusing loans to schools while lending millions to insurance and railroad companies. Almost as pugnacious as the speeches were the convention's resolutions: 1) against political interference with teacher appointments; 2) for a nation-wide investigation of anti-education "taxpayers...
Curtis Bean Doll, son-in-law of Presi-dent-elect Roosevelt, resigned his partnership in the New York Stock Exchange firm of Goodbody & Co., announced he would become an independent broker with an office at E. F. Hutton...
...trial balloon, it served its purpose quickly. Filipinos squawked regretfully at their Governor's proposed departure. U. S. businessmen in Manila shook their heads sourly at the demands of mainland politics. The U. S. Press generally mocked the idea that Governor General Roosevelt would promote Presi dent Hoover's reelection...
When the series was all over, the only thing the British team could really be pleased about was a small round dent in the side of the Walker Cup. It was a reminder of the only match that went to England this year, the one between George Voigt and Leonard Crawley, a Dunfrieshire. schoolmaster better known in England for his cricket than his golf. Crawley's iron on the :8th overshot the green and bounced against the Cup which, with its bright silver handles sticking out like donkey's ears, was standing on the clubhouse lawn...
...Alliance of America, the Hickory Handle Association, the South western Peanut Shellers' Association. In the mighty realm of rolling mills and blast furnaces is the American Iron & Steel Institute. To head this trade group Rob ert Patterson Lament last week resigned as U. S. Secretary of Commerce. Presi dent Charles Michael Schwab will retire to an inactive chairmanship...