Word: m
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...eleventh day of debate, at 1:20 A.M., with M. Briand in command, with M. Poin-caré in bed, and with the thermometer at 90° the government put through their law with a vote of 300 ouis to 292 nons. Thus by the narrow squeak of 8 votes-the smallest majority thus far received by the present government-M. Domergue was authorized to pledge that France will pay the U. S. a total of $6,847,-674,104.17 (of which $2,822,674,104.17 is interest) over 62 years. The French Senate must confirm the Chamber...
...will be Publisher Patterson. Since the day Liberty started, the Patterson eye has read, the Patterson hand has personally okayed every story, every article that has gone into his magazine, in much the same manner that his grandfather, the late great Publisher Joseph Medill, had put "J. M. Must" in blue pencil on every news story that appeared in his Tribune years...
Laggard students who flunk and repeat courses cost more to educate than smart ones who pass everything. This is manifestly unfair in a public school-system in which each student should benefit from the same amount of the public funds. W. M. Kern, school superintendent of Walla Walla, Wash., believes that laziness accounts for most failures. Last week he asked his school board to evaluate a high school education, suggested $480, or $30 per course. He would have students who repeat courses pay $30 per repetition. Thus, he said, "no pupil could complain since each ... would have as much money...
...SCANS His PAST-M. Con-stantin-Weyer-Macaulay...
This success resulted partly from the character of the directorate, partly from the executive ability of President Herbert P. Howell and his officers, partly from favorable banking conditions. The directorate includes such men as Clement M. Keys (Curtiss-Wright Corp. airplanes), Walter P. Chrysler (automobiles), Lewis J. Horowitz (Thompson-Starrett, skyscrapers), Richard F. Hoyt (Hayden, Stone & Co. and Curtiss-Wright Corp. airplanes), Robert Lehman (Lehman Bros.), William Wrigley Jr. (gum), R. P. Stevens (Niagara-Hudson Power Corp., Morgan utility) and William H. Vanderbilt...