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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...editorial is fairly representative in the losses it mentions as due to the growth of the size of colleges. All of them are qualities much to be desired in college life and which few institutions would willingly do without. They are the things the "old grads" remember with the greatest tenderness when the last memory of what they learned in courses has long since been forgotten. But what of the primary function of the college--the education it is intended to provide? Nothing has yet been evidenced to prove that this quality is affected one way or the other...
...wrote: "I am not a drinking man (this does not mean that I never take a drink), am a director in corporations employing over 300,000 workmen, and have a family of 12 children ranging in ages from five to 21 years. The thing that is giving me the greatest concern in connection with the rearing of these children and the future of our country is the fact that our citizens seem to be developing a thorough lack of respect for our laws and institutions, and there seems to be a growing feeling that nothing is wrong in life except...
...until last week, however, would even potent Mexicans have dared to cry "Rapscallion!" at steelyeyed, quick-triggered General José. Then, suddenly, President Plutarco Elias Calles, bull-necked and bushy-browed, took pen into heavy fist and dashed an angry signature onto a proclamation: "To my greatest surprise, and assuredly that of the entire country, it has been discovered that one of the highest officials of the Administration and a prominent member of the army, General José Alvarez, the Chief of my Headquarters Staff, who had enjoyed my friendship and confidence, has proved traitor to the most elementary principles...
Louis Chevrolet is the oldest of three brothers, motor musketeers. Arthur was the second brother. A woman cured him of racing. Death cured the third brother, Gaston, in a collision on the Los Angeles speedway in 1920. On the Memorial Day before his death he won his greatest race-the Indianapolis Sweepstakes...
Organization Problems. So many other food products companies has Postum Company absorbed recently that President Colby Mitchell Chester Jr. (son of the famed Rear Admiral) has found his greatest problem in integrating the several organizations. To get the correct solution he is not hurrying his staff. That policy Postum directors approve, and they have postponed the increase of Postum's dividend rate. It has been $5 a share (all common, no preferred) since August, 1926. There was one 100% stock dividend and a second is believed imminent...