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They read: "Ladd & Bush Salem-Branch of the United States National Bank of Portland." For 71 years (almost the age of Salem) it had kept the money of Salem and the inhabitants of Oregon's lush Willamette Valley. Together the three had prospered...
Salemites strolling past the corner of State & Commercial Streets one day last week stared sorrowfully at cardboard placards in the arched windows of the old Salem, Ore. firm of Ladd & Bush, Bankers...
...Stoddard had found supporters. The yearbook reported that identical twins reared in separate homes had different I.Q.s. Southern Negroes who moved to Harlem (and thus got better schooling) raised their I.Q.s. Psychologist Robert Ladd Thorndike (son of famed Edward Lee Thorndike) had examined the records of some 1,100 children in three famed progressive schools (Horace Mann, Lincoln, Ethical Culture), found that in two schools children's I.Q.s were static, but in the third (unidentified) there was an average I.Q. gain of more than six points...
National American Legion champion, Jeanne Ladd of Swampscott, has already indicated her willingness to throw over Swampscott High for a Harvard affiliation, saying "they're nice boys; they generally get what they want?" Other fast-stepping twirlers are expected to follow Jeanne's lead...
...Actually Japan will still depend upon the U. S. for tailor-made ball bearings and high-grade forgings which are beyond Japanese imitative technology. In this country the Wooster plant could turn out $3,500,000 worth of machinery a year. Asked what its Japanese capacity would be. President Ladd snapped: "About half what it had in Wooster because they don't know...