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...April 1, the fiscal year was three-quarters over. In that nine-month period the Treasury had collected $2,137,178,647 which was some 60 millions more than for the same period last year. For the first time, the March tax payments showed personal receipts ahead of those from corporations...
...break" did not come. The Treasury had to announce last week that it would pay 4½% on an issue of nine-month notes, for which the last of the Third Liberties might be exchanged. In past years, money conditions had allowed Secretary Mellon to retire some $3,900,000,000 worth of Second and Third Liberties, all bearing 4¼%, at rates ranging from 3⅞% down to 2¼%. Not since early in 1923 had he been obliged to offer...
...sign a two-power treaty "outlawing war" between his country and the U. S. Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg insists that the treaty be a multi-power affair "renouncing war as an instrument of national policy." Out of the clash of these two concepts has come a nine-month long game of diplomatic bean bag (TIME, July 4, 1927). Last week M. Aristide Briand sent one more note to Washington from which it appeared that the French position is now, in substance, as follows...
...schools of the U. S. The attendance of 72,120 children in 70 counties of 10 states was examined. 141.7 days in the 365 was the average total attendance. Half the children had attended school less than seven and a half months, a fourth less than five months, over an eighth less than three months. In schools having nine-month terms, the average attendance was 70%, compared with 60% in seven-month terms. Pupils who had less than 130 days of schooling fell a year and a half behind grade in reading and spelling ability...
SHIPKINS, '83, is in love. He has repeatedly assured his friends of the fact, and, when he heard of the Spring Athletics, he felt that the chance had come to display his nine-month College culture to his charmer. Accordingly, after carefully studying a Sophomore's notes on Rhetoric lectures, he sent her a nicely written postal inviting her and another young lady (whom he generously purposed to bestow on his chum) to come to Cambridge and witness the sports...