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...loss sustained last autumn.* By the end of 1931, or at any rate, of 1932, I expect the average to have, perhaps, even attained the 1929 peak again." Steel. Although Iron Age's prices of finished products are at the lowest since 1922, firmer scrap steel prices are encouraging. The industry as a whole is operating at 54%, against this
...Zealand police a fortnight ago. Last week the British cruiser Dunedin plowed through the South Pacific from Aukland, under orders to cow Samoans again. In Wellington, New Zealand's Prime Minister, the Right Hon. Sir Joseph George Ward looked owl-solemn above his waxed mustache and announced that "A firmer policy in administration in Samoa will be adopted...
...moment later High Chief Tamasese and seven other Samoans lay dying in the dusty road. In revenge for the death of Constable Abraham came the peremptory arrest of 20 Samoan Chiefs, the ordering of the cruiser Dunedin to Apia, and Prime Minister Ward's threat of a still "firmer" policy...
...departments, therefore advise it; the feasibility of the general programme is acknowledged; yet when graduation approaches, no adjustment is made. To those who are paying more than the usual price for a normal Harvard education, the University owes a definite obligation. The entire situation deserves a firmer economic foundation...
...released photographs of the portrait of President Coolidge painted by Frank O. Salisbury during the President's holiday at Sapeloe Island. Friends thought it was good, except that Calvin Coolidge never held his head as imperiously as that (see col. 2), and it makes him a lot younger, firmer-fleshed, cleaner cut, than he really looks. That, however, may be what a good portrait should do. Furthermore, as the late John Singer Sargent once said: "A portrait is a picture in which something-is-wrong-with-the-eyes...