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Announcements of the most authoritative character made it seem certain, last week, that the governors of Europe's great central banks of issue have told Gates W. McGarrah, now board chairman ol the New York Federal Reserve Bank, that they wish to elect him board chairman of the new Bank for International Settlements soon to be set up in Basle, Switzerland, as "the cash register of German reparations" (TIME, March...
...Like "Ol' Man River" the game of football seems to be just rolling along in spite of the death notices which it receives from the press at stated intervals. The latest, and one of the best criticisms of the sport as it now exists in the American college world comes from the pen of John R. Tunis, himself a professional sports writer...
...truce with Shell in India after a great price-cutting was resulting from Socony's bringing Russian petroleum down to Bombay and Calcutta (TIME July 16, 1928). Now another armistice may be necessitated. Shell having duplicated Socony's Indian tactics and spent some $40,000,000 for the acquisition ol service stations in Socony's homeland...
Holding the anniversary celebration on Monday will break again the ol tradition of holding the meeting on Friday after Commencement. From thounding of the chapter in 1781 through 1911, the gatherings were held on Friday. From 1912 through 1922 the official date was set for Monday. Since then, Friday has been observed again but the conflict on this day with so many activities as well as the fact than it was the anticlimax, coming the day after Commencement, caused the change...
...this time there has been no important law enacted which bears his name. There has been no great adventure in which he suddenly flashed before the public. He has advanced to power and responsibility through the successful repetition of an orthodox routine. And between the colorful career of ol' Cap Curtis boy and the conventional existence of Charles Curtis. Senator, there is a gulf as wide as if these two were different persons...