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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...situation really assumes a distinctly calamitous aspect when one takes a brief glimpse at the perennial bills which now decorate Harvard desks throughout the college. What with the unfortunate outcome of the Michigan game and the past unpleasantness in Wall Street, the financial atmosphere of Cambridge has become distinctly heavy. A term bill is bad enough, the anticipated outlay for the Yale week-end will be worse, and for those who sport license plates of dashing colors the thought of registration and insurance is the last straw. That such an accumulation of gargantuan expenses should be presented at one fell...
Events of the past few weeks in the financial world should make the annual meeting of the Harvard Economic Society this week of particular interest. Half-backed comments on the stock market situation have been uttered on every side; constructive analyses by those best qualified have been uttered on every side; constructive analyses by those best qualified have been few and far between. While the list of subjects announced does not specifically include the stock market, there will be discussion of the outlook for various key industries as well as for business in general...
...clear to call a would-be prime minister from the right. The numerically stronger but disorganized left had twice failed. It was time to summon the man whom former Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré? greatest statesman of the right?has been grooming as his successor for two years past at least. All France knows the long, rumbling name; André Pierre Gabriel Amedeé Tardieu. He has two nicknames, first Le Dauphin ("The Crown Prince"), second L'Americain?for snappy, humorless, combative André Tardieu is supposed to be "the most American of Frenchmen...
...would do the same thing. And so did Samuel W. Reyburn, president of Manhattan's department store Lord & Taylor. But the climax came when the wizened little man who lives in the fortressed home in Pocantico Hills, N. Y., said: "My son and I have for some days past been purchasing sound common stock." In memory of many a trader in Wall Street, John D. Rockefeller Sr. had never spoken of the market. Nor did he often speak on any subject...
...Louis Symphony began a Golden Jubilee season to milestone its 50 years of existence. As has been the situation for two years past, St. Louis has no permanent conductor; guest leaders will split the schedule. Spaniard Enrique Fernandez Arbos held the baton last week. Italian Bernardino Molinari will succeed him in January. Then follows George Szell of the Berlin Staatsoper, making his U. S. debut, and Eugene Goossens (see above...