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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What Smith Did Sirs: I am surprised and disgusted with TIME. You tell all about what Boris, the big Serb, did on March 4, but not one word do you give about the other man who if half a million votes had been ort the other side of the fence would have been the big show on March...
...other "culls" wish to subscribe with Cull Mittlefehldt to deport Henry J. Weeks? Would Henry J. Weeks accept a ticket?-ED. Ex-Buck Sirs: If the ex-Y-Tycoons; real, semi and pseudo, say they gave away 26 million francs and won the war, that's that. All you ex-bucks who believe it, stand on your head. I neither recollect nor have I ever heard of any buck who ever received, gratis, anything from the Y except - -. He got lots of that. In fact he has heard this brand of F. S. Edmonds and F. H. Jamison overseas...
Princeton men, in common with university men everywhere, will watch with keen interest Harvard's venture in creating a group of residential colleges for undergraduates after the Oxford and Cambridge model. The Harkness gift of eleven million dollars will provide the physical necessities of the plan. It remains to be proved that values will accrue from this courageous effort to integrate the academic and social life of a great university...
Radio Corp. Dealing in those luxuries of life which U. S. standards of living have made almost necessities, Radio Corp. of America reported approximately an even 100 million dollars of gross earnings. Net income was $22,802,000, almost twice its 1927 figure of $11,799,650. Radio Corp. earned $11.80 a share (on shares outstanding at end of 1928). As its stock had a 1928 high of 420, it was selling up to approximately 35 times earnings, thus demonstrating that a market leader pays little attention to "times earnings" standards...
Consolidated Gas Co. Federal, state, county and municipal taxes cost the Consolidated Gas Co. of New York so much that it made only $59,592,551 net income in 1928, an increase of $7,282,394 over 1927. These taxes, totaling more than 24 million dollars, amounted to more than 17% of operating costs. Last week's report (the first since the merger with Brooklyn Edison Co.) put Consolidated in the billion-dollar class with total assets...