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...period, although 8,478,000 more bales were produced. Morgan Partners. On Wall Street there was talk that two new partners might be added to J. P. Morgan & Co. after Jan. 1. Present partners are: J. P. Morgan, Edward T. Stotesbury, Charles Steele, Thomas W. Lament, Horatio G. Lloyd, Dwight W. Morrow, Thomas Cochran, Junius Spencer Morgan Jr., George Whitney, Thomas S. Gates, R. C. Leffingwell...
...TREASURER Frederick Vanderbilt Field Austin Lament...
Potent U. S. financiers, from Thomas W. Lament down, journey to Italy only to return and hymn the praises of Fascism (TIME, Feb. 1). Established authors, especially such contributors to the Saturday Evening Post as Irvin S. Cobb, return to pronounce like benedictions upon Premier Mussolini and all his works. Last week, in Paris, Louis Bromifield, 30, author of three financially and artistically successful novels* recounted to newsgatherers with the alarming candor of youth impressions gleaned on a recent visit to Italy...
This last lament contained food for thought. It was a genuine lament; many an Oxonian would feel injured, if only in principle, by fresh curtailment of his freedom to be with Oxoniennes. But many another Oxonian-for Oxford's flower, full-blown these many centuries, is here and there wilted to a decadence unknown in U. S. universities, as yet-would shrug and smile secretly to think that in their concern for the conduct of mixed company in Oxford, the authorities had continued to disregard well-known practices among athletes and poets, dons, esthetes and choir boys...
...Harvard's alleged irreligious would seem to be mainly a matter of definition. Harvard long ago lived through the period of transition which Yale is painfully undergoing now. Yale men still lament the growth of Yale College into a university in which it is hard to preserve the old Yale unity and Yale spirit, but they have discovered no way to prevent it. Harvard met the difficulty by accepting...