Word: reasons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...handled approximately 15,000,000 passengers-in 1928 approximately 4,500,000- the decrease being due entirely to automobile and bus. In the case of the automobile its greater flexibility and convenience is responsible for its vogue-in the case of the bus the cheaper fares. Neither reason will apply to the airplane...
Last week David Albert Schulte resigned as chairman of the Vadsco Sales Corp., holding company that absorbed Vivaudou last December. The reason given by President McHugh, who together with Broker Jules S. Bache bought Schulte's Vadsco stock, was that the Schulte-United 5? to $1 Stores were cutting prices, a merchandise-moving policy competitive to the interests of Vadsco's small retail customers. Asked to choose between companies, Mr. Schulte had decided to remain with his stores...
...which shows that the undergraduate at West Point was surprisingly like his Harvard brother, that human nature being what it is, the undergraduates of today are not less alike than those of the good old times, and that there is no basic reason why the men of the cannot continue to assemble together periodically to witness these friendly Crimson and of the Black, Gold and Gray contests between their teams...
...reason why the advocates of the repeal of the Volstead Act are so agitated at the present time is because they have hurled a definite challenge at President Hoover," said Thomas Nixon Carver, David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy, when asked to comment on statements made in behalf of Prohibition by Professor Irving Fisher, Yale economist, in a recent address. "If he succeeds in improving conditions as they are, and materially cutting down the evil as it now exists, the main argument of the wets will be gone. They have been hurling the lack of enforcement into the faces...
...fact that large courses in the field of the arts can in fact be successfully conducted is amply proved by Fine Art Ic and Id, elementary courses without entrance requirements which are popular and at the same time maintain a high academic standard, and there is no reason why Music 3 and 4 could not profit from the example set by these courses...