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Arranged in chronological order on the museum's walls were U. S. admirals and naval battles, from the American Revolution on, lent by naval enthusiasts, from William Randolph Hearst to President Roosevelt. Some famed battle scenes: the U. S. flagship Bon Homme Richard and British frigate Serapis (1779), Battle of Lake Erie (1812), Battle of Mobile...
...from resorting to the repressive methods of a more pious age, the guardians of Harvard's dietary welfare have now lent a courteous ear to student complaints. Although demurring to some of the conclusions of the Student Council's Food Report, they have promptly acted on one of its proposals; and an expert has been hired to investigate the alleged inefficiency in the Dining Halls. This is a conciliatory gesture which must be appreciated; but whether it is more than a gesture only the future can show...
...through rotary dies. For filling his capsules, Bob Scherer worked out a machine process that was not only faster but more exact than any of the hand-operated processes he had ever seen. For capital he borrowed $3,000 from his father, raised $2,000 on General Motors stock lent him by his mother-in-law, went to work in an East Side store...
...values, has done its best to minimize the annoyance that good food offers to an earnest young man, and no one can quarrel with the variety of peculiar and ingenious solutions. But the efforts of the Kirkland House Committee seem to me to be less skillfully devised. Now that Lent is over, I am not sure that the formula of bad meals eaten in silence will be enough to restrain undergraduate vernal exuberance...
...horrible example was Continental Securities, acquired in 1937 by a gang of speculators, most of them now behind the bars, for whose skulduggery Continental's bankruptcy trustee is asking $3,300,000. Stephen Paine, of Wall Street's reputable Paine, Webber & Co., lent the sharpers $580,000 to buy the voting stock of Continental, grab control of Continental's $3,371,000 portfolio. This they liquidated, replaced good stocks with securities of paper investment companies...