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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...example, by Straus, Matthews, and Massachusetts Halls, and again by Lionel, Mower, Greys, and Stoughton, would not give rise to any radical differences from those conditions now existing in any one of the Freshman dormitories. While the smaller buildings might possibly encourage the formation of cliques more than the larger dormitories, this problem could be solved in much the same way it is done at present. The assignment of rooms in Mower could be done on a minor scale as compared with the filling of a hall the size of Gore. The circulation of members of the first year class...
...Judge may be dishonest. He may be leagued with his appointees to abstract and share a larger percentage of the assets than the law allows, thus cheating legitimate creditors. Politics largely controls Federal judicial appointments in the lowest courts and old political debts can be quietly discharged by appointment of a small group of the judge's friends as receivers. A judge's old law partner may likewise be overfavored with such assignments from the court. A good Federal judge scatters his receiverships; a bad one uses them for political or personal profit...
Railroads. Though passenger traffic on Class I railroads (184 main trunk lines) was the smallest in the last 20 years, freight traffic increased ½ to 1% and by cutting operating expenses most roads showed larger earnings per share in spite of many decreases in gross income. These roads reported net operating income of approximately $1,200,000,000, a return of 4.71% on their property investment. The 1927 return was 4.38%. The following table (from Dow, Jones & Co.) gives 1928 and 1927 surplus after charges and earnings per share of the following roads: 1928 1927 Baltimore & Ohio...
...Nine per cent of its population (15,158) attend concerts regularly as against an average 4% for the rest of the country. Newark, Ohio, rates second with 6%. Big centres like Manhattan and Chicago, despite their great opportunities, pull down the average with less than 1% attendance. Of the larger cities, Boston, according to Manager Engles, is most genuinely musical. He described Boston as "one of the few cities which places musicianship above box-office appeal...
Significance. It is possible that stock-market speculation has increased or will increase so far as to compel a radical revision of Federal Reserve policies and functions. Meanwhile, however, speculators were inclined to feel that the Reserve Board's big words were larger than any big stick it might produce, that it was perhaps talking chiefly for the not inconsiderable moral effect which its speech actually did have upon a nervous and inflated Exchange...