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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Patten: Board of Trade. Chicago grain traders last week mourned the passing of the old Board of Trade building at Jackson Boulevard and LaSalle Street and the death of James A. Patten, one of the men who did most to make that building famed. Operating on a large scale from 1890 to his retirement in 1910, Mr. Patten is credited with being the only man who ever established corners in all four of the major markets-wheat, corn, oats and cotton. Though prosecuted under the Sherman Law for acting "in restraint of trade" Mr. Patten always denied that...
...nearly all branches there are recorded increased exports and diminished imports for the ordinary goods of current consumption, due no doubt to the larger scale organization of industry and increased capacity of producing standardized goods/whether textiles, chemicals, engineering products or iron and semisteel products...
...unemployment doles to the 250,000 workmen now locked-out in the Ruhr. The gigantic dole was approved by special act of the Reichstag. With great difficulty the deadlock between employer and employed was temporarily settled, last week, when workmen agreed to resume work on the old wage scale pending a decision by Minister of the Interior Doctor Severing as to whether or not their wages should be rightfully increased. C. Pan-Germans were mightily cheered, last week, by news from Saarbrucken in the French occupied Saar. The local mayor had celebrated the decennial of French occupation, it appeared...
...unrecorded, except when carried to extremes, in the Dean's office Football, publications, activities of all sorts are bathed in holy light through out the quadrangles of many a famous church school. One studies to get into college so that he may engage in these activities on a large scale and once in this same person studies only that he may remain, and become a Big Man. The constant information that seeps back to the old school about former graduates who are now Big Men in various colleges fans this fire nowhere so violently as in the private preparatory schools...
Accordingly, our expedition is again in the field, this time under the direction of Dr. R. H. Pfeiffer, of the Semitic Department. We had hoped to work this year on a larger scale, but, owing to the necessity of purchasing additional equipment and paying more for salaries, the resources available for labor are somewhat less than those of a year...