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However one feels about this still unsettled problem, the rest of the book cannot prove of interest. The questions of natural monopolies, restrictions of trade, and the new position of America as a creditor nation are all discussed, and a whole section is devoted to review of the economic situation in the leading countries and their probable place in the postwar world of commerce. The author's long experience has enabled him to enliven the text with numerous anecdotes and illustrations that make the book not only informative but interesting reading as well...
Appeals. Importers were irate at a provision of the bill which would take from them the right to carry their appeals on valuation matters before the U. S. Customs Court. The valuations fixed by appraisers were made final, subject to review only by the Secretary of the Treasury (i. e., a staff of clerks in the Treasury Department...
Michael, 7, King of Rumania, dressed in a blue suit, played soldiers last week. The soldiers were alive. 100,000 of them, marching past for four hours?Baby King Michael's first military review...
Tomorrow marks the twentieth anniversary of Mr. Lowell's entrance into the Presidency of Harvard College. The progress of the University during the last two decades is so well known as to render futile any further attempt at review or glorification. Advancement in educational method such as the tutorial system and the plan of concentration and distribution has been matched by a vast increase in number of students and size of the University endowment. The brilliant and far-reaching conceptions of his predecessors have been shaped and welded by President Lowell into a working whole which maintains Harvard...
...Norbert Wiener, mathematician of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, last week published in the Technology Review some remarks on Mathematician Albert Einstein. Two points he made: 1) that all the talk about Einstein being "incomprehensible" is bosh, so far as mathematicians are concerned; 2) that there is as yet no final Einstein Theory−the document published last January is but part of a chain of thought; 3) Einstein has already noted deficiencies in his January work, modified it and progressed to further conclusions...