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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...afternoon, the University combination rowed to the bridge in short stretches and then paddled upstream over the lower course, two and a half miles. The crew came home stopping only once. The jayvees also went to the bridge and rowed two miles up the lower course, coming home in several stretches...
...turned next to the serious matter of beauty contests. Acting in his capacity as Minister of the Interior (one of his 8-out-of-13 Cabinet positions) he notified all prefects of Italian provinces that "beauty contests, with their consequent naming of 'queens' and 'princesses,' lower the moral standard of communities, and tend to dangerous exaltation of feminine vanity as well as constituting a parody on very serious matters." Therefore, let there be no more beauty contests. The "parody on serious matters" phrase was merely fresh evidence of how jealously Fascist Italy guards the dignity...
...February, 1879, an announcement was circulated in Boston and Cambridge under the title of "Private College Instruction for Women", describing the provisions made and stating that "no instruction will be provided of a lower grade than that given in Harvard College." The circular was distributed with the signature of Mr. Gilman as secretary and the names of Mrs. Louis Agassiz, Mrs. Josiah P. Cooke, Mrs. Arthur Gilman, Mrs. James B. Greenough, Mrs. E. W. Gurney, Miss Lilian Horsford and Miss Alice, M. Longfellow. Under less favorable sponsorship and without the firm support of President Eliot of Harvard it would hardly...
...Electric (may split 4 for 1), Baltimore & Ohio (earnings may be $15 a share this year), and on many another stock. There was also definite bear counsel on Public Service of New Jersey (priced too high), American Power & Light (why buy stocks at their high?), Wright Aero (headed for lower levels soon) and others, including general disapproval of coppers and oils...
Wages, Prices. The cost of living has slowly declined since 1922, wholesale prices having fallen an average of 1/10 of 1% each year. While prices were being kept relatively stable, wages increased, so that the purchasing power of wages rose 2.1% a year. So, while prices are slightly lower than in 1922, purchasing power of wages is almost 15% greater, thus making the wage-earner's pay-envelope extend comfortably beyond the bare necessities of life. The committee complimented U. S. industry upon its wisdom in realizing that its profits could best be based, not on an attempt...