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...Having an extra section instead of a special train saved the Government $1,800. Some said the special section cost the railroad as much as a special train, that the railroad lost the difference in the cost. Even so, it was repaid in advertising. U. S. Presidents customarily used the Pennsylvania in traveling West. When President Harding started on his fatal trip to Alaska, he changed to the B. & O.?allegedly because the Pennsylvania had failed to meet his wishes in a certain labor controversy. Since then, the B. & O. has had the Presidential patronage. Daniel Willard, President...
...Tribuna, Rome journal, Senators Tommaso Tittoni, ex-Foreign Minister (1919) and President of the Senate, counseled reduction of Italy's War debts on the score that the U. S. and Britain made "excess profits" out of war materials. These profits, he held, should not be repaid. Concerning the remainder, he advocated nonpayment of interest, extension over a long period of years of capital payments at the rate of exchange at which the debts were incurred...
Those who have their ear to the ground for musical comedy, will be repaid by listening in on The Student Prince, The Grab Bag, Lady, Be Good; Big Boy, Rose-Marie, Ziegfeld Follies, Music...
Here are Dr. Henry Van Dyke's impressions of Dr. Fitch's novel, "None So Blind" (Macmillan). He says: "Last night I stole some hours from sleep for a quick 'first reading' and was well repaid," The book is full of life and vigor. I do not know of a better picture of 'student life' at Harvard; which, I guess, is not essentially different from the life at other Eastern-American universities. The particular quality of the book is its insight into the personal nature of the development of a boy into a man in college years...
After all, the only future events, of which even prominent bankers are certain, are when their loans are due to be repaid. Unfortunately, we encourage them to look upon themselves as gifted with prophesy beyond other mortals, and incessantly invite them to make after-dinner speeches about the future. They can scarcely be expected to arise, and say: "Mr. Toastmaster, I think that business is going to the devil, that my bank has quite a few very poor accounts, and that some of you gentlemen here present will find yourselves in very hot water inside the next year." Such sentiments...