Word: mille
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...works of art comprising Joseph E. Widener's $50,000,000 collection, is to be left to the public. Mr. Widener has not yet stated whether the City of Philadelphia or the Metropolitan Museum, Manhat tan, is to be the recipient. The Rembrandts include the land scape, The Mill (said to have cost $500,000), Portrait of Saskia; Study of an Old Man; Portrait of Himself; The Philosopher; Head of an Aged Woman; The Apostle Paul; The Circumcision; Head of St. Matthew; Portrait of a Man with a Letter; Descent from the Crass (also reported to have cost...
...Philosophy department, Dr. H. M. Scheffer said that Professor Whitehead was among the first two or three philosophers alive today. "What makes him a great philosopher" said Dr. Scheffer," is that he, with Bertrand Russell, is the foremost representative of the great English empirical tradition of Locke, Benkley, Mill, and Hume, and secondly that he is keenly aware of the philosophical limitations of empiricism...
While the cotton planter rejoices, the textile-mill operator is faced with additional trouble. The cause in both cases is a sharp rise in cotton prices...
Meantime the cotton-mill owner, who had become optimistic, saw prospects of being able to sell fabrics spun of 21? cotton, received a severe jolt when the price went up to 24?. The stagnation in the textile trade has been due to a "consumers' strike" against the high prices charged for cotton goods. The refusal of consumers to buy at high prices cannot be changed until the raw cotton itself declines. Retailers refuse to stock up; jobbers are wary; and as a result unemployment is prevalent in the New England mill towns...
...WEAR W. L. DOUGLAS SHOES AND SAVE MONEY." He pegged shoes for $10 a month for eight years. Then he gave it up and worked in a cotton mill for 33 ? a day. He served in the Civil War and was wounded at Cold Harbor. At 20, he went West, and in Golden City, Col., set up a retail store, Studwell & Douglas, and advertised with an advertisement headed "INDIANS. If you want to outrun the redskins, wear Studwell & Douglas shoes." After three years, he sold out at a profit and returned to Massachusetts where he worked as foreman...