Word: mained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bank examiners issued no premature estimate of possible losses. City Trust Co., with its main offices and four branches, had deposits of $7,300,000. Its president, F. M. Ferrari, had died Feb. 2. There followed rumors of bad investments, of unsound conditions. It will be months before definite announcement of settlement will be made. Meanwhile depositors have only the comfort of knowing that their demands will be satisfied before those of stockholders...
...held in an effort to learn the student opinion on the question of the disposal of the Union under the House Plan before the report of the governing board on this matter is submitted to the Corporation. Judge F. P. Cabot '90, president of the governing board, described the main alternatives, assuming that under the House Plan Freshmen will live in the Yard, as follows: "Either an annex to the Union will be built containing the Freshman dining hall; or the Union will continue to be what it is now, a club house for graduates, commuters, and undergraduates who care...
...main objective of the Hoover plan, I take it, is to provide for the alleviation of general unemployment, when it occurs, by increasing the expenditures of the federal and state governments on public works which are to be held in abeyance in anticipation of such contingencies. The immediate task is to arrange for the recording of the facts which will show when, where, and how much unemployment exists...
...fact that the Reserve bank cannot make it harder for the speculator to borrow money without making it correspondingly harder for the businessman or the farmer to borrow money. A rise for one is a rise for all. If Wall Street pays dearly for money, so will Main Street...
Although the opponents of mass education have plenty of sound criticism, which should aid greatly in correcting a system which due to its comparative novelty has many apparent defects, nevertheless many overlook the crux of the problem. If the main weakness in the system lies in a popular misconception of the value of a college education and even further academic work for a doctorate, it will indeed be difficult to change the ideas of approximately one hundred and twenty million people. The solution must as a result be found by the colleges and carried out by a more intelligent method...