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...attention to all this. Other arms tycoons have their hobbies: postage stamps, hybrid tea roses, Louis Seize furniture, after-dinner speeches about peace. Making money is the hobby of Director General Vickers, who is also a very active partner in the London brokerage house of Vickers D'Acosta. Fourteen months ago a munitions scandal shook Rumania. Army officers were charged with having accepted bribes to throw arms contracts to the great Czecho-slovak firm of Skoda. One of them committed suicide, others went to jail and the Skoda contracts were canceled. Not trusting any of his salesmen, Douglas Vickers...
...meals. The price charged by the University for twenty one meals a week is more than reasonable since one could not possible eat as cheaply in the Cambridge restaurants. But the club man naturally wants to eat fairly often in his club, and consequently he eats only ten of fourteen meals a week in his House. The trouble is that he must pay considerably more in this event, more, it is only fair to say, than the meals are worth. Accordingly, for so long as the present situation continues, club men are going to prefer boarding houses over the Houses...
...following fourteen scholarships are awarded for study in the Graduate School of Education...
...Fourteen ushers for the Naval and Military Ball were announced last night by the members of the committee, Robert L. Hurlbut '34, John F. Maddeb '34, and Paul J. Wolfer...
...Fourteen members of the Varsity lacrosse team, accompanied by Coach Robert B. Pool and Manager George A. Thayer will leave Boston tonight to meet Princeton tomorrow afternoon...