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There is so much that is utterly illogical and so much that is entirely divorced from any basis of fact in Mr. F. V. Lindley's article on the younger generation in the current issue of the New Outlook that his assertions demand definite repudiation by the group of college men for whom Mr. Lindley professes to be the spokesman. If there is any truth in the article, so much the worse for the younger generation...
...Lindley draws a picture of the distress produced among small wage earners by bank failures which shows that he is aware of the breakdown of the economic system, but the refuses to admit that the breakdown is the result of any inherent inadequacy in the system in the face of modern technology and the growing complexity of world economy. Socialism he dismisses with an exclamation mark and a "God forbid." Socialism is very possibly not the right solution, but it can hardly be rejected off-hand without so much as the suggestion of an alternative solution...
...Died. Lindley Miller Garrison, 67, Manhattan lawyer, onetime (1913-16) U. S. Secretary of War; at Sea Bright, N. J. Splitting with President Wilson on the need for a reserve "continental" army trained by the Regular Army, he resigned when Wilson declined to oppose the counterplan of a National Guard. In 1918-23 he served as receiver for Brooklyn Rapid Transit Co., put it back on its feet...
...last week's disclosures was news that Samuel Insull had been thrown out as co-receiver of Middle West Utilities, a post he accepted when his system crashed (TIME, April 25) and from which he supposedly resigned (TIME, June 13). The company's bankers and Judge Walter C. Lindley had learned that while Martin Insull was in Indiana visiting his daughter he received a $170,000 margin call from a broker. Samuel Insull met it out of Mississippi Valley Utilities funds. Martin Insull later gave a personal note for the amount, borrowed $66,000 more from the company. The company...
...this task Federal Judge Walter C. Lindley in Chicago appointed as receivers: 1) Edward Nash Hurley, politico-businessman who once headed the U. S. Shipping Board and last month procured both Republican and Democratic conventions for Chicago; 2) Charles Alexander McCulloch, who recently bolstered the business of the late John R. Thompson one-arm-chair cafeterias; 3) Samuel Insull. When an. objection against Mr. Insull's appointment was made, Judge Lindley exclaimed: "This company is Samuel Insull's own child. His appointment is not improper because if he were excluded the company would miss the benefit...