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...meet with Amherst on January 10, resulting in a 45 to 23 defeat for M. I. T., Lutz clocked 26 4-5 seconds in the 50-yard dash as compared with the 24 3-4 seconds mark of B. S. Wood '33, Levinson in the backstroke fell 9 2-5 seconds short of the mark set by Fred Lewis '32, and the Engineers' relay team's time of 1 minute, 45 1-5 seconds compares unfavorably with the Crimson time, 1 minute, 40 3-5 seconds...
...ceaseless agitator for peace has been Salmon Oliver Levinson, 64, smart Chicago corporation lawyer. To him goes much unofficial credit for the idea of making war illegal, for the Kellogg-Briand Treaty or Pact of Paris. And to him went the $50,000 Bok Peace Prize for his plan of adjusting War reparations and debts. The Manchester Guardian has proposed him for the Nobel Peace Prize. Last week Peace-Maker Levinson made another peace proposal: limit short-selling...
Although others have suggested short-selling be discouraged, perhaps banned, Mr. Levinson is the most eminent figure to take this view. He suggested a two-week moratorium on short sales so "we could then determine whether the gamblers who play the stockmarket as a game are responsible for this terrible condition...
...Billings Kellogg brightest in 1929, for it was the year in which 57 nations signed the world-peace treaty with his name on it. But researchers and analysts could show that Mr. Kellogg did not originate the outlawing-war idea ; that a comparatively obscure lay figure named Salmon Oliver Levinson, Chicago lawyer, was invited to the White House the day the signatures were affixed in recognition of certain conversations he had had years prior with Senator Borah of Idaho and others...
Peace-loving Lawyer Levinson's address: 134 S. La Salle St., Chicago...