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...natural that the President should desire to see as firm and faithful a supporter as Mr. Gillett as his spokesman in the Upper House. So Mr. Gillett announced his intention to contest the seat of Massachusetts Democratic Senator, David I. Walsh. The contest with Mr. Walsh was no little matter, for the latter had entrenched himself with Wet support, with support of foreign born voters (by opposing the passage of the new Immigration Law), with support of War veterans (whose measures he had favored). Against this, Mr. Gillett had his own record as a competent presiding officer, with a keen...
...lunched by the Advertising Club of Manhattan. Said he: "The purpose of my present trip is to study advertising methods in the U.S., for they are the best in the world. I will take back with me to Paris an American advertising manager for my firm." He was induced to speak on the subject of clothes. Glancing down at his own furnishings, he stipulated that to be truly "soigne" a man should have 80 suits, "Oh, but at least 80!" said...
...fallen Labor Government authorized the tremendous expenditures involved, and it is more than certain that the Tories will carry on. The orders were placed, one with the English Government dirigible plant at Barrow, the other with the private but all powerful firm of Vickers, Ltd., which Sir Basil Zaharoff, Europe's mystery man, is said to control. The English call one the "Socialist" ship, the other the "Capitalist." But whether Labor or Tory is in power, the British always think of Empire, and the ships will connect England with India and Australia in four stages...
Despite the unprecedented amount of construction in the past few years, it is claimed by S. W. Straus & Co. that a $4,000,000,000 building shortage still exists. The firm in question has conducted a survey of national scope in all cities over 10,000 population. Out of 528 cities studied, shortages in 389 totaled $4,050,820,000-$2,102,698,500 of it residential, $1,130,851,500 commercial and $870,270,000 for public buildings. The remainder cities revealed no existing shortage. Moreover, in some sections of large cities, a condition of surplus rather than shortage...
...assistant deans and several other faculty representatives. Several alumni also served on the committee, including T. N. Perkins '91, of Boston who recently resigned from the Harvard Corporation to undertake work with the reparations committee in Europe, P. S. Straus '97, of New York, a member of the firm of R. H. Macy and Company, J. W. Hallowell '01, of Boston, former overseer, and the Reverend Palfrey Perkins '05, of Weston...