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Later in the afternoon the backs and ends were put through a forward passing drill. It is no secret that department will come in for a large measure of attention under the new coaching system. The ends are under the tutelage of C. R. Carney, one of the greatest ends ever turned out in the Big Ten Conference, who was an All-American choice while playing his last year at the University of Illinois in 1920. J. N. Barbee '28, one of the most accurate passers of last year's squad, has not yet reported for practice, Madison Sayles...
...Raymond Poincaré has been called the greatest of French militarists. There are those who have even dubbed him the arch plotter of the World War.† There is no question that it was he, as Premier (1922-24), who sent French troops to occupy the Ruhr. Yet last week M. Poincare, once again created Premier (TIME, Aug. 2), began to clip and prune the French Army, in the interest of national economy to save the franc...
Selfridge & Co.'s department store in London, the embodiment of these reflections, was founded in 1909. Its building in Oxford Street is a guidepost for beautiful store architecture. Sales people address clients by name. In 17 years it has become, except possibly for Harrod's, the greatest retail store in England...
Last week, four Congressional districts in Missouri, unable to restrain their fervor, began to boom Senator Reed for President. In Livingston county, where once the name of Mr. Reed was anathema, they said: "The most commanding figure in the greatest deliberative body in the world, we indorse him as Missouri's candidate for President of the U. S." In his home town (Kansas City), they said: "He has a horror of corruption."* Democrats from coast to coast perked their ears, pondered on that impressive 64-year-old figure of Senator Reed. They thought of the year 1928; remembered that...
Gypsum-seller Shearer can tell these facts with authority having entered the industry in 1893. He shared in the origin of the U. S. Gypsum Co., perhaps the greatest concern of the industry. He was with the American Cement Plaster Co. for ten years. Then in 1923 he created the Universal Gypsum...