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Paced by smaller units like Jones & Laughlin, Republic and Northwestern Barb Wire Co., which had laid their 1935 plans long ago, U. S. Steel's directors authorized its subsidiaries to spend $47,000,000 for new construction and equipment within the year. And Bethlehem Steel announced a new $20,000,000 hot and cold rolled strip plant at its Lackawanna works near Buffalo...
John H. Wigmore '83, Dean-emeritus of Northwestern University Law School commences a series of lectures today on current problems in law and law instruction...
...high-pressure stock selling campaigns. And its 18,000 stockholders watched their investment fade from a high of $99 per share to about $3. Early in the New Deal, having noted the fun the Senate Banking & Currency Committee was having in Washington, Governor Olson began to kettledrum about how Northwestern investors had been swindled out of $100,000,000. Forthwith he ordered his commerce commission to investigate...
...Minnesota probe included First Bank Stock Corp., the other great Northwestern exponent of group banking, but the fact that at least one official was an Olson friend seemed to temper the commerce commission's tactics with that institution. Not so with Banco: After months of investigation the commerce commission presented its findings-allegations that dividends were paid without earnings-to a grand jury in Hennepin County (Minneapolis). Promptly the grand jury voted a no bill, thus thwarting Governor Olson's determination to put someone in jail...
...findings of Professor Paul Andrew Witty of Northwestern University: 47 schoolboys among 14,149 and 48 schoolgirls among 13,493 were found to have IQ's of 140 or better...