Word: leading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Stories. The Borden case, in which an old gentleman and his wife were killed under circumstances so baffling that there seemed to be no possible solution, and which affected Fall River's sensibilities so profoundly as to lead the library officials to exclude a history of it from their shelves, supplies the longest and most absorbing of the studies. "There are in it," Mr. Pearson says, "all the elements which make such an event worth reading about," and he is entirely right. It is unquestionably a fascinating "problem in human character and in human relations," although in the bitter...
...consequences of agricultural prosperity are many and important. First, they will lead to conservative politics this Fall, and favor the re-election of Mr. Coolidge. By improving the farmer's buying power they should increase the consumption of manufactured goods with greater rail traffic as a result. This development may, as a matter of fact, provide a basis for the subsequent recovery of our industries from their present depression although that is still far ahead. Finally, the former serious disparity between agricultural and other prices is being reduced. A restoration of the former balance between prices will...
...abnormally high prices for cotton are stimulating production in foreign countries. Egypt is expected to increase its cotton acreage 10%. Heavier planting is also expected in the Sudan and Uganda, whose potential acreage is estimated at about 2,250,000 acres. Among South American countries, Brazil has taken the lead as a cotton producer, yet Argentina has 14,000,000 acres available for the crop. But all these new cotton territories face serious difficulties. In the upper African districts, irrigation is the problem. In Brazil, the cotton area is in the interior valleys where transportation is poor. In Argentina...
Edward A. Filene's remarks before the Advertising Convention, London, made a particularly deep impression upon it. In Mr. Filene's opinion, mass-production, as now developed almost everywhere in the world, is bound to lead to mass-selling, which is dependent upon advertising. As proof of his contention, he stated that in the United States, about $628,000,000 was spent in advertising during...
...Majestic (White Star)−Dr. Edwin A. Alderman, President of the University of Virginia; Frank A. Munsey, publisher; famed surgeons sailing for the International Medical Conference at Lausanne; Alvin W. Krech, President of the Equitable Trust Co.; L. J. Reckford, President of the American Lead Pencil Co.; W. G. L. Behr, California "lumber king"; Eldridge R. Johnson, President of the Victor Talking Machine Co.; Frederick Lonsdale (see above), after three days in the U. S.; John R. Mott, General Secretary of the International Committee of the Y. M. C. A.; Frederick Toppin, Vice President of the International Mercantile Marine...