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...Incomprehensible to most of them is the European student's passionate preoccupation with political and sociological problems, which often impels him to strike, riot, kill. But U. S. colleges have their minority quota of young men and women who look curiously, if conservatively, out upon the larger world, ponder its problems and predicaments. They are more likely to belong to a debating society than to the football team, more inclined to politics than to literature. Most of them like to organize and represent, to agitate and orate...
Branch Banking. Yet even though a bank should pay 100% after it closes, the closing cannot help but cause stress to both depositors and borrowers. Hence the year has been one that has made all serious bankers ponder remedies carefully. John William Pole, Comptroller of the Currency, has tirelessly reiterated his arguments in favor of larger banks, many branches. Last week he gloomily contemplated the ravages of Depression upon the banking system, and again pleaded with slow-to-change bankers and suspicious Congressmen for the development of branch-banking. Said he: "In brief, the purpose of the legislation recommended...
Meanwhile, as Cunard shares from $2 to $1.25, experts ponder would happen to No. 534 if left ur on the ways. Already she is in constant shoring up to prevent sa the fabric. It was suggested that at least the stern might be hurried to coi so that the vessel might be floated. Tied up at dock, she has better chance standing the unkind elements and the unkinder financial weather...
...employes. Closely allied with U. S. unions, Canadian labor leaders were bitterly disappointed, declared they would submit the matter to arbitration. In Chicago this week the U. S. Railroad Brotherhoods meet to consider the same question of wages. Unmoved so far by pleas of rail executives, their leaders must ponder the Canadian decision, the Wabash failure...
...Edwin Walter Kemmerer of Princeton, famed fiscal diagnostician, was named to represent Federal Reserve Bank of New York at a conference of South American central banks in Lima, Peru next month. Bolivia called the meeting to ponder the mutual fiscal problems of herself and Chile, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador. The central banks of all five countries were established on the advice of Dr. Kemmerer so his attendance was expected, but it is unusual for the Reserve to go out of its official family for its chief representative. Accompanying Dr. Kemmerer will be Allan Sproul and Eric F. Lamb, both...