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While there is need for such commendable consideration of the crisis, it is unfortunate that a college football team is required to furnish an additional spectacle and that in times like these an indirect method of taxation is needed to supplant the chiseling of charity. But that is Yale's business...
...more than 24,500,000 bales against probable world consumption of American cotton of 13,000,000 or possibly 14,000,000 bales. . . . This condition has already resulted in drastic declines in cotton prices which if allowed to continue may bring direct disaster to cotton-producing States and indirect distress to the nation. . . . Time has now come when cotton producers themselves must be called upon for immediate and drastic action. . . . Board suggests you immediately mobilize every interested and available agency including farmers, bankers, merchants, landowners and all agricultural educational forces to induce immediate plowing under of every third...
Wiggin. Another indirect promise of help for Britain came from the U. S. last week. Albert Henry Wiggin, board chairman of Chase National Bank (world's biggest) sailed for Europe to take his place as U. S. representative on the Bank for International Settlements' committee to study Germany's credit needs and the possibility of turning short term credits into long terms. Great Britain's troubles are interwoven with Germany's. Chairman Wiggin will have to ponder them as well. Englishmen remembered last week that as long ago as January Chairman Wiggin urged a general...
made big black headlines in the news last week. One was the size of the Treasury deficit. The other was the amount of soldier Bonus loans. Though their connection was indirect, they went over the top into ten figures within a few hours of each other...
President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University last week made formal though indirect announcement that the university had received another sizeable chunk of the gigantic income of Edward Stephen Harkness. Had Columbia not received it, the U. S. and New York State would have taken it as income taxes. The gift, Mr. Harkness indicated, was to be allocated to the great Medical Center which the university and Presbyterian Hospital have organized in upper Manhattan; and the Medical Center should use it for an Eye Institute.* Pathologists can describe diseased eye conditions. Ophthalmologists can treat and cure a great many...