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...counsel and advice was interrupted by the announcement of a prize. It is a peace prize to be awarded for a 5,000-(or less) word plan. But the plan must be nonpolitical. It must be a plan to promote peace by education. [This was the great theme ot an educational convention in San Francisco last year.] The prize is $25,000. Its giver is Raphael Herman†, of Detroit. Members of the jury of award include: Banker Robinson of Los Angeles, President Jones of the N. E. A., Governor Baxter of Maine, President MacCracken of Vassar, Scientist Milliken...
...loan will be in the form ot $150,000,000 of Japanese Government 30-year 6½% bonds. Simultaneously in the English market will appear an offering of ?25,000,000 of 35-year 6% bonds. Part of the U. S. issue will be placed in Holland, part in Switzerland...
...Pope presented him as the Patron Saint of the Catholic Press. He was Bishop of Geneva, Switzerland, 1602-1622, in the days when the Calvinistic "heretics" had to be withstood. He was noted for the energy and zeal displayed in his missionary work in the province Chablais, a stronghold ot Calvinism. His practical advice to defenders of the Faith was given to the world in 1608, when he published his Introduction to the Devout Life...
...light when it moves in the same direction as the revolution of the earth, or in the opposite direction. The earth's speed around the sun is 18½ miles a second. The speed of light is 186,330 miles a second Thus the difference in the speed ot light as it meets the earth head-on and as it follows the earth in the same direction should be easily measurable...
...York is the capital of flappers, the home ot a girlhood robbed of everything but an empty sophistication...