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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Campaigning for next year's presidency was hardbitten. Dr. Percy Howe of Harvard Dental School ended his term last week. Dr. Robert Boyd Bogle of Nashville, president-elect last year, assumed the presidency. Who would be chosen president-elect? Army dentists and those who served in the Dental Corps during the War electioneered for Col. Robert T. Oliver of the Army Dental Corps. Others wanted Dr. Martin Dewey of Manhattan. Incoming President Bogle was so eagerly interested in such association politics that he was typically ungracious to those few reporters who wanted dental information for their readers...
...note invites powers to participate in a conference at London in the third week of January next, bids them come prepared to discuss the limitations of all types of surface war boats, the abolition of the submarine. Japan immediately signified acceptance, though her formal reply to "Uncle Arthur" was delayed. France and Italy, who rely on undersea boats as their chief naval arm, were expected to send acceptances containing strongest reservations against even discussing abolitions of subwarfare...
...panicky, coffee buyers bearishly swell-chested. Plummetlike the price of coffee plunged-down 200 points for two days. Each point is 1/100?. What the howlers called "Dec-Santos!" (coffee from Santos, Brazil, for December delivery) fell, for example, one day from 19.25? to 17.25?, recovered somewhat, hit bottom the next day at 16.65?. Such a plunge, such an unsettling of coffee futures may spell eventually the loss of millions to coffee hoarding speculators, overloaded and waiting for a rise. Brazil, world's greatest coffee producer, is also the nation of most colossal coffee hoarding. Last week Vice President Benjamin...
Patrick Joseph Cardinal Hayes of Manhattan sailed to Italy on the Cosulich motor ship Saturnia. Next to his suite is a Roman Catholic chapel, the Saturnia and her sistership Vulcania, being the only ships pontifically authorized to carry the sacrament...
Continental Chronicle. Neither ancient nor humble were the Continental Can beginnings. In 1913 three sizable companies-Continental Can of New Jersey, Export and Domestic Can of New York, and Standard Tin Plate of Pennsylvania-combined to form Continental Can Co., Inc. During the next 13 years the company prospered but only in 1926 did Continental Can begin absorbing smaller companies with the steady monotony of an expanding corporation. In the last three years the company has acquired 14 manufacturers scattered over the country. Some of these make tin plate (sheet iron plated with tin) from which cans...