Word: knowns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Economist Jenks Sirs: I wish to call your attention to an omission from your "Milestones" column of the death of a great man, Dr. Jeremiah W. Jenks, president of Alexander Hamilton Institute and an internationally known economist on Aug. 25. It so happened that his picture was published in an advertisement of the Alexander Hamilton Institute in your magazine for that week. PHILIP SOBEN Brooklyn...
...That Great Lakes does indeed produce amphibions (note spelling) and cabin ships in "small numbers"-in fact, no numbers at all, although it has built an experimental amphibion. . . . 8) That, unless the basis for comparison be automobiles or some similar commodity, the present rate of production on the well-known Great Lakes Sport Trainer could hardly be classed as "small numbers," since it stands at four complete airplanes...
...week the President considered tonnages, gun sizes, British statements of naval requirements, U. S. counter-requirements. Then, while the White House, the State Department, the Navy Department still boiled with naval and financial statistics, long code messages were sent to Ambassador Dawes in London and presently it was definitely known that Britain's white-headed Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald would sail for the U. S. on Sept. 28 to confer personally on naval reductions with President Hoover. This milestone in the Hoover administration was soon followed by its bigger, better corollary: Secretary of State Stimson was enabled to announce...
...myself, anyone familiar with the Congressional records knows that I do not represent any company of any kind, the National Security League or any other society. I have received many indorsements from patriotic organizations, however. I am well known and well disliked. I fight internationalism, pacifism, and communism. I make many enemies and many friends...
This must necessarily appear more or less vague to the Freshman who is being introduced to the parlance as well as the substance of what is known, and properly so, as Harvard's educational system. He owes it to himself as well as to the college and the success of the present progressive regime, to find out as much as he can from the very start about the course of four years, rather than the course...