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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor Cabot argued that monopolies provide their own competition and thus are forced to keep their prices down. If an organization having a monopoly over a certain industry tries to charge rates that are too high, the public will be sure to find a cheaper substitute...
...Democrats there is little consolation in the sight of the belle of the south going down the asile to the waiting arm of the G. O. P. Such things may make a pretty gesture of national unity, but practical politicians in the Democratic camp perhaps find it a somewhat superfluous one. All that remains to cheer these boys is Senator Moses celebrated statement that the demands of Massachusetts for seats at the inauguration are far too exhorbitant to come from a Democratic state...
Even though the admitted purpose of the organization is the sponsoring of such work as would fail to find ready acceptance in such quarters as the Fogg Museum, it is well that the point of departure be not too far removed from familiar ground. New standards of taste must at least find the bricks and mortar of their construction in the standards of the past, for even the most open minded critics find difficulty in properly appraising a work which has only a nominal relationship to the familiar...
This reductio ad absurdum of a current foible which has given rise even in shrewd New England to vast consignments of "Mayflower" furniture may cause a smile. But the Levantine inhabitants of Charles Street will still learn to find their appreciation of the marvelous powers of the father of their new country in the value with which he endowed the chairs in which he once found rest...
...straightforward newspaper style, the story of that fearful trek northward. The Soviet enemies of humanity are revealed as men brave in the performance of the highest duty laid on man, and the alternate hope and despair that filled their hearts as they searched the dreary wastes, week after week, find an answer in the reader, so simply and graphically is the tale told...