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...Chicago Bar Association, Professor Pound was approached by the editor of its Review with a suggestion that the Review publish the speech. Professor Pound pulled out his manuscript and handed it to the editor. "Is this your address for tonight?" he asked. Pound replied that it was nut that he did not need his text, as he had dictated it on the way over from Philadelphia so that it was fresh in his mind. Following the talk through the pages of the manuscript, the Review's editor reported that they corresponded nearly word for word, with all the changes seemingly...
Died. Amedeo Obici, 69, pint-sized (5 ft. 1 in.) giant of the peanut business; of uremic poisoning; in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. An Italian immigrant, Obici at the turn of the century opened a Wilkes-Barre peanut stand which eventually grew into the huge Planters Nut & Chocolate...
...minded. Without the strike we would have gotten the same $2 that Western Union got-a nickel an hour instead of a dime." But the fact was that N.F.T.W. had taken a bad licking, that it had been too poorly financed, too loosely organized to tackle as tough a nut...
Though Coach Bill Barclay has done a bit of re-shuffling in the lineup--Larry Gray is playing his first Varsity match today in the number six spot--he doesn't expect that Amherst will prove as tough a nut to crack as Williams last Wednesday. "We just squeaked through at Williamstown," the team's "pro" asserted yesterday...
...other men had built autos, but Henry Ford had a special theory. Build them cheap, he said, so everyone could own one. Make them simple, he said. The Model T had only 5,000 parts, counting every last nut. Standardize the parts, he said, so that anyone could buy a new carburetor in any one of the thousands of garages which he visualized springing up across the country. The Model T was high-slung, narrow-wheeled and homely. Said Ford: "Customers can have it painted any color they want so long as it's black." He turned...