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...silver trowel, tapping lightly a great block of white limestone, Mrs. Herbert Hoover announced last week: "On behalf of the National Women's Committee of the Washington Cathedral, I declare that the first stone of the North Porch is duly and truly laid. May God bless and prosper the work of our hands upon us." The North Porch thus consecrated is the gift of U. S. womanhood to the nation's Westminster Abbey: the Protestant Episcopal Cathedral of Sts. Peter and Paul, abuilding these many years on Mt. St. Alban, 400 ft. above the city of Washington. Less...
...house, or aboard his yachts Zatna and Sialia. Chicagoans remember when he became a partner in D. A. Tyng & Co., Chicago over-the-counter house. They also remember how that firm ended in a flurry of indictments. Promoter Andrews came out of that crash unscathed. He went to Manhattan, prospered in stocks and buildings; went to Los Angeles, prospered in stocks, hotels, penny slot-machines. So greatly did he prosper that he could play the market in company with that once great bull William Crapo Durant. He became and still is a director of Hupp Motor Car Corp...
...approve of Mr. Babbitt. He may dig in and fight it out on those lines if it takes all winter. He may come to believe that Mr. Babbitt is not quite bright, and write examination papers as deliberate in perversity as he can make them. Either way, he will prosper in the course. The amateur humanists will get the gracious acknowledgements that fall to those who repeat things agreeably, and the non-conformist will find his carefully-planned papers marked with a creditable grade and a note: "Good argument. You'll get over this after a while...
Trans-Ohio. A small unit in a field where big units prosper most, Transcontinental Oil Co. has had a varied career. Less familiar is it to stock-traders for its record of deficits in five of the last ten years than for its stock's puzzling ups & downs. Many a broker has warned: "The way of the Trans-guesser is hard." But lately Transcontinental had done better, its first-quarter earnings showing a 100% gain over last year's. Credit for this is due to Amos L. Beaty who resigned as chairman of Texas Corp. last year...
...because in France alone live, prosper and organize the men, parties, groups and sects which regard sympathetically the eventuality of war against Fascist Italy...