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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...several German banks in which he is heavily interested, or the German ballbearing industry in which he controls about 75% of production, or one of the great steel mills that consume the ore obtained from his Swedish mines. Last week the reason was clear. In the past there had been but two factors in the German match market. One was Swedish Match, the other the government-protected cartel* of independent manufacturers. Recently a new, disturbing agent had appeared. Matches from the vast timberlands of Russia were underselling the western manufactured product. It appeared evident that Matchmaker Kreuger had come...
...gown he resembles King Henry VIII in jolly mood, that he organized Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health (1918), and now its Department of the History of Medicine and its Medical Library. As last week he walked with the applauding throng of notables,* through the library building, past a bust of himself and into the library's great hall, he paused near an ancient statuette of Asklepios and looked at Sargent's The Four Doctors hanging above the fireplace. And Osier again seemed to be saying to him as once before he said: "This...
Added to both these conditions, is the lesson taught by the past history of Harvard-Dartmouth relations. One of my earliest recollections is of the great Joe Forecast, on the eve of a H-D game, with every other score correctly computed in that fine mind of his, resorting to pulling numbers out of a hat to determine the Dartmouth score! Though I was only a CRIMSON candidate then, it is a lesson which I have never forgotten...
Days like this recall past exploits . . . time yet for some more. But not for lectures. With Dartmouth in town again...
...Carnegie report was of intercollegiate and, to a certain extent, of public importance. Two other items played up during the past week were not. The three-column "Stunt Riot at Harvard" headline of a Boston paper last Thursday led a story that deliberately over-emphasized one incident of the initiations until there appeared to be a race-riot seething under the surface at Harvard Square. The bold-face story on "Kindergarten Treatment" in another paper yesterday related a mild disciplinary action such as has often occurred in English 2, and is utterly without importance outside of the classroom. Thus...