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...cash?$1,350,000 per boat, about one-fifth in cash and the balance in 7% preferred stock in a holding company to be organized. They later offered to increase the cash payment to $1,500,000, proposed that the Government accept bonds at 4˝ for the balance. Their main object was to prevent sale to Captain Dollar and son. They pointed out that they had been running these boats without loss to the Government?in fact with an operating profit of about $2,000,000 during the year ending Feb. 28, 1925?and that the Government was therefore under...
Department. As such, it had hitherto been under the general supervision of another of the several Assistant Secretaries of the Treasury-Mr. McKenzie Moss. But, until a year ago, it was assumed that the main responsibility lay with Mr. Haynes. Wide publicity was given to his "success." Then, suddenly, the publicity stopped, presumably because it could not be sustained against the evidences of liquor on every hand. Interest shifted from Mr. Haynes to the Treasury Department proper. Mr. Moss, who had other things to do besides enforcing prohibition, became swamped with work. Now he has been relieved by the transfer...
...efficient business methods, of small-town family life, is ready for you if you are suffering from the disease. If, on the other hand, you are one of the sophisticates who shrug a shoulder at such things, you will probably find the play as effective a satire as "Main Street" or 'Beggar on Horseback." The only flaw in our enjoyment as such, was our horrid suspicion that Mr. Frank Craven wrote the play more for the enjoyment of the large crowd that so obviously did enjoy it, than for any purpose of poking fun at the way we moderns live...
...personal element on the problem resolves itself into two main considerations. There must be more tutors and there must be better tutors. In order that the system may work to its best advantage no tutor should have more than five or six students assigned to him. He should be able to become not only acquainted but intimate with them all. He should meet them not once in two weeks but two or three times a week, and at least once a week he should meet all his students together for informal and sociable discussion. It is obvious that with larger...
...that there was no pact which in any way invalidated any provision of the Treaty of Versailles. The French Nationalists were of two views. On one hand, they had negotiated a series of alliances on the Continent which were designed to insure French ascendancy. They were told that the main advantage of the proposed five-power pact was that Britain would consider as a casus belli any violation of that pact. This, they argued, was accepting British protection and surrendering French continental supremacy. On the other hand, they were cynical of making any paper agreement with Germany, pointing...