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Some economists believe that the next great credit expansion will blow out in installment paper, just as in the last boom it blew out in stock market loans. Pointing out the political problem involved in any future effort to restrict consumer credit, the New York Stock Exchange firm of Biggs, Mohrman & Co. lately observed in a thoughtful little pamphlet called The Next. Boom & Collapse...
Keynote of "Daddy" Wood's educational creed is: "Girls aren't men. Why restrict them to a masculine diet?" While other girls' schools seemed determined to be as much like men's colleges as possible, Stephens developed in precisely the opposite direction. A junior college where most students take only a two-year course, Stephens is equipped with a streamlined curriculum which makes girls worry little over mathematics or Greek, lets them concentrate instead on such subjects as Elementary Music, Consumers' Problems, Principles of Dietetics, Tap Dancing, Expressive Speech. The courses are grouped to correspond...
...suit against the company, tried in the Pittsburgh court; 3) the Pittsburgh court had settled the issue in 1912 by a consent decree* perpetually enjoining the company and its officers "from entering into or participating in any combination or agreement the purpose or effect of which is to restrict or control the output or the prices of aluminum." Effect of Judge Gibson's order was to require Government attorneys to come into his court and attempt to convince him that they were not trying to convict the company a second time for the same offense...
Choosers of the much-publicized "blonde of the month", the Blanchard-Dorner boys enjoy an envious name in their line. Generally they restrict their polling to "an extremely representative committee of outstanding artists and showmen," but this time they have evolved the idea of consulting the leading Universities, which include, besides Harvard, Hobart, Black Mountain, Sturgeon Bay Teachers, Little Creek, Yale, Ripon, C.N.C.N.C.N.C.Y., the Hobo College, Pierre Foundation of Budding Studs, Rollins, and the newly founded Society of Agrarian Aggies...
...there is no evidence whatsoever that the Supreme Court stands or has stood in the way of the efforts of the Federal Government to provide work for the unemployed, to protect home owners and farm owners from foreclosure, to guarantee the safety of bank deposits, to expand credit or restrict it, to protect the small investor on the Stock Exchange, to adjust the value and nature of the currency or to do any one of many other things in the interest of the little fellow...