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Wall Street must have its wisecrack. "High finance" was the weak but prevalent pun heard last week when Fiduciary Trust Co. opened for business on the 30th floor of No. i Wall St. But other bankers pre- pared to watch Fiduciary's course with deep interest. Distinctly it is a new departure in banking. The idea for Fiduciary Trust was conceived by the law firm of Root, Clark & Buckner and the investment counsel firm of Scudder, Stevens & Clark which, formed in 1919 as the first purely professional investment adviser, now spends $400,000 a year in research, handles some...
...word Lord Peel opposed granting Dominion Status to India either now or at any specified future time, drew exclamations of fury by his cool sneer and pun that parliamentary institutions in India "are not growth but graft...
...great contributions which American College education has made to the joy of living is apparently the institution of student third class. For the benefit of hardened cynics it may be well to explain that no Lampoon pun is intended in the foregoing. Reference merely was made to the great rush of American students for the ports of Europe which has not only lead to an overwhelming increase in the business done by the photographic board of the CRIMSON but has resulted in the conversion of lower decks of passenger liners into low rate Atlantic accomodations...
Anti-vivisectionists detest the American Medical Association, which swats them as though they were annoying horse flies. Mrs. Jeanie McCredie Matile of Chicago meant no pun when she declared that there was "a steadily growing revolt against the dogmatism of the A. M. A. by its own members." Dr. Alonzo Eugene Austin, Manhattan homeopath, occasional physician to John Davison Rockefeller Sr., not a member of the A. M. A., testified: "If it were necessary to tie these little animals down to get our experience of how to cure people, I'd give up the medical profession tomorrow. I have...
...chiropractors who, as the American Bureau of Chiropractic, met in Manhattan last week, saw no fun in the pun and joke played on them by the new Encyclopedia Britannica. Explained therein in immediate sequence are Chiromancy (Palmistry), Chiron (centaur wise in healing), Chiropodist, Chiropractic, Chiroptera (Bats). In chronicling Chiropractic the Encyclopedia commits one of its numerous errors. It pronounces B. J. Palmer the chief founder of the movement. The late Daniel David Palmer laid the foundations of chiropractic (1895). Bartholomew Josiah Palmer, his son, founded the Palmer School of Chiropractic...