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...When we came into the War we readily agreed to apply this sound principle to our transactions with our associates. That is to say, we agreed to furnish them the dollars with which all their purchases in the United States should be consummated and, what is more, we agreed to lend them those dollars. This was the origin of these debts. But here is the fact that is not mentioned and which you gentlemen have apparently overlooked...
...Statler, hotel operator: "My son Milton likes jazz and he can play the traps. Last week he proposed to me that I let his friend, young Roger Wolff Kahn, furnish dance music for all my hotels for about $1,000,000 a year. I said that I approved his idea, but I told him that I would have to talk it over first with Roger's father, Otto Hermann Kahn...
...plan whereby members of the Junior Class may secure for the summer, business positions which will furnish experience valuable in making a choice of their vocation, is being formulated by the Employment Bureau in conjunction with the Associated Industries of Massachusetts...
...college lecture overshadows a country school spelling bee. Indeed it was delivered in substance during a series of lectures to an international group of students at Geneva. Whatever readers its rapid, crystalline, aphoristic pages fail to drive back to the best in U. S. literature, it will furnish with at least a vivid sequence of that literature's successive ideals...
...South Seas--being approached by a ragged beachcomber with the request for the price of a drink, and recognizing, beneath the grime, a former class-mate of theirs. It is from the remainder that the beachcombers must be drawn. One can only wish that they had the courage to furnish their occupation to the class committee; so that their friends might look them up, on the veranda of some sinister hotel in the tropics and save them the embarrassment of asking for the drink...