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Peach Plan. California peachgrowers, with harvest time not far off, last week were wondering how many of their trees to uproot. For peaches from uprooted trees the canners' pool will pay an extra $2.50 a ton. Object: to reduce California's orchards by 12,000 acres, lessen overproduction next year...
...Harding's] mission to compose the prejudices and conflicts at home, to lessen the threats of renewed war. When in two years he died, new peace treaties had been made; tranquillity had been restored; employment had been renewed and a long period of prosperity had begun. . . . My first meeting with Warren Harding was during the War. Late one evening the then Senator came to my office. When he was announced, there flashed into my mind the thought that here was some complaint or request. . . . Instead the Senator said simply: 'I've not come to get anything...
...donator has left room for a liberal interpretation of its provisions. Although in the past the lectures have varied wided between poetry and art, the subjects themselves have not been ones which were entirely new to the Harvard curriculum. This fact, of course, did not necessarily tend to lessen their interest of value. However when such a relatively unappreciated field as Icelandic literature is brought before the public, it is an indication that the Norton lectures will become of still further service in the coming winter. There are few opportunities for the general student to come in contact with remoter...
...Customers' Man of the Coolidge era. Before publication, the Board of Governors of the New York Stock Exchange had pamphlet copies privately printed for their own reading. To them the subject is especially interesting, for since the Crash of 1929 the Exchange has done much to lessen the evils of which Mr. Sparkes writes. Customers' Man Robert Loomis had a pleasing personality and was an excellent barytone. He stopped his music studies to work in Wall Street when some such strategy was demanded in order to appease the capitalistic father of the girl he wooed. He quickly learned...
...Harvard fade a little when he is faced with the facts of increasing costs. By some process of reasoning, the House Plan is regarded as a chief factor in the bringing about of advanced costs. Naturally, the question is asked, "What is the College doing to lessen these costs? What of scholarships, aids, loans, and prized to offset higher costs?" From another angle the self-supporting or partly self-supporting student asks. "What can I do to help myself...