Word: items
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...step in the direction which it now appears every endowed educational institution must ultimately take, has been announced by Yale University in the form of an undergraduate tuition increase. Effective next fall the fee will be four hundred dollars a year, an increase of fifty dollars. A significant item in the bare notice of this step as reported in the press, is the fact that "additional appropriations will be made to prevent the increase from adding to the financial burdens of the self-supporting students...
...call your attention to item in TIME of Nov. 28 issue, p. 31, top, which refers to women's lounge and smoking room on trains operated by the Pennsylvania R. R., Lehigh Valley and also mentions name of the Santa Fe's crack train The Chief...
...such summary fashion did that super-journalist, Arthur Brisbane, dispose of an item of financial information that had appeared on the front page of almost every U. S. newssheet. He had apparently forgotten to point out the name of the little-known man who had been elected, with John P. Morgan, the new chairman of the board, and James Augustine Farrell, new chief executive officer, to control the enormous destinies of the United States Steel Corporation. This was Myron Charles Taylor who had been made head of the finance committee...
...interest effluvia, prefer parliamentary riots and such outbreaks as the Battle of Blanton and Bloom to the interpretation of drab statistics assembled by the drudges of Congressional Committees engaged in formulating legislation of significance. "Ten thousand dollars unviolated looks handsome. The Congressional tengrands get badly nicked. The most appalling item is the slice torn off for campaign expenses. Then come the tickets for balls and kindred entertainments. . . . Congressmen are considered easy marks and their names grace many a list of angels, honored by the company of America's leading philanthropists. The cost of tickets for card parties, bazaars...
...owner of more than one share of the common stock of S. S. Kresge Co. last week bought an evening news sheet. As he turned its pages to the financial pages to investigate the condition of his investment an item caught his eye. This was its headline: KRESGE CALLED PHILANDERER. Shocked, the shareholder began to peruse the article. As he did so, his face darkened...