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...Company to Mr. Sinclair Lewis, published in facsimile in the New Republic. The advertiser offered Mr. Lewis four hundred and fifty dollars and the honor of being included in a series of "dignified advertisements" indorsing silk socks, to which Messers Floyd Gibbous, James Montgomery Flagg, and George Ade had lent their names and faces. The novelist's only duty was to give his photograph and approve the copy; one suspects that the Realsilk Hosiery Company has never seen Mr. Lewis...
...night on this reconstruction job." Of larger importance than the Bonus was Mr. Dawes's testimony on the economic state of the Union as viewed from the R. F. C.'s presidency. To the committee he explained that in its first 77 days his agency had lent $370,347,802 to 1,757 institutions, of which 1,520 were banks. Answering the criticism that R. F. C. favors large banks over small ones, he declared that 23% of its loans had been in towns under 10,000, 68% in cities under 100.000. He vigorously defended...
...Dean Herbert Edwin Hawkes announced that Student Harris was expelled for ''personal misconduct." But to many a Columbia student he became a Cause. STRIKE TODAY! went the word. Daily Columbia struck. Opposition from "the athletic crowd'' which had repeatedly menaced Student Harris only lent zest to the goings-on. Eggs flew, eyes were blacked. stink bombs made embarrassed strikers ill. Harris supporters howled lustily for Free Speech et al. but the strike ended gently. Columbia went back to work. Dean Hawkes departed for Europe leaving Student Harris still expelled...
...noteholders and bankers, or a combination of these steps. While it was stated that Owen D. Young was entering the situation only as Samuel Insull's personal friend historians recalled that in the early days of the utilities. General Electric assisted them, that in 1914 General Electric and Wrestinghouse lent a large troubled holding company $10,000,000. They suspected that General Electric would be willing to use some of its $115,000,000 cash resources to aid so big a customer as Mr. Insull and to keep the credit of all utilities high...
Recently the Fogg Museum revived its practice of loaning framed reproductions of pictures to undergraduates who desired them for personal use. The opportunity offered was not announced or advertised, however, and the students knew nothing of it. Hence the Museum has lent only two pictures this year, and now seizes on this apparent "lack of interest" as an excuse for discontinuing the service...