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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...days a thing like this would have been settled by a horse whipping. . . . It is hard to have blame fastened upon me for things I never did, and to have become the weapon for an attack upon the memory of Mr. Gladstone, for whom I have always had the greatest respect. . . . I do not suppose I met him half a dozen times in my life . . . but he always left me with the feeling that he was essentially a good man. . . . I remember that once he gave me a copy of the memoirs of Sister Somebody-or-other, and I could...
...important to his subjects as the Emperor of Japan. To them he is a descendant of the Sun Goddess, and thus actually possessed of Godhood. Moreover, only one dynasty has reigned* and still reigns in Japan. All spiritual and temporal good flows from the Emperor. Even the greatest of all Japanese victories, the capture of Port Arthur by Admiral Togo (1905), was officially ascribed to "the virtue of the Emperor." Therefore last week when the people of Japan set about the funeral of the late Emperor Yoshihito (TIME, Jan. 3), they very properly proceeded as though they were escorting...
...Kuhn, Loeb & Co.'s greatest contribution to U. S. finance has been its pioneering in great international loans. It sold U. S. securities to its European customers and European securities to its U. S. customers, when other U. S. investment dealers had no understanding of such commerce. When Japan was fighting Russia in 1905, Jacob Schiff (1847-1920) then senior partner of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. was in London. The Japanese Government wanted $50,000,000. London bankers said they would risk $25,000,000. Jacob Schiff said that his firm would take the other $25,000,000. Subsequently, Kuhn, Loeb...
Platt, first speaker of the evening, explained the necessity of learning the fundamentals during the first year in college. "Furthermore," he stated, "the University crews always watch the first year men very carefully, and take a great deal of interest in their work. A good Freshman crew is the greatest encouragement...
...goes the greatest show on earth...