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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from 3¢ to 6¢ per pound (farmers wanted an 8¢ rate). Butter was left at 12¢ per lb., whither President Coolidge had temporarily raised it from 8¢. Tariff duties on milk and cream were doubled. Poultry & eggs, lard & swine, vegetables & fruits all moved up proportionately on the new tariff scale...
Last week strike leaders slightly modified their demands. They were ready to accept a 48-hour week instead of a 40. They would return on the 1927 wage scale, instead of the $20 per week minimum. But Manager J. A. Baugh of the Loray Mill was "too busy" even to discuss these concessions. To him the strikers were just "discharged" employes. His mill, he claimed, was running well without them...
...When in Manhattan, Broker Eaton stops at the Biltmore, takes the Presidential Suite. When in Northfield. Ohio, he stays at his summer home (the summer home of Tireman Seiberling is also in Northfield). When in England (which he visited last summer) he rented a. spacious estate, entertained on royal scale. He is a collector of books on sports and supports the Northfield Hunt Club. From faces, Broker Eaton likes to deduce character, studies physiognomies with attentive eye. Broker Eaton and his associates (loosely referred to as the "Eaton interests") have holdings in Republic Iron & Steel, Youngstown Sheet & Tube. Inland Steel...
...colorful Cornell Sun has succeeded in ignoring the main point of the Corporation's mysterious endowment plan, but the by-product of individual professionalism is nearly as interesting as the topic of large-scale commercialization. The development of a plan of abolishing gate receipts would naturally be paralleled by a furthering of intramural athletics, and an ultimate goal of the least possible intercollegiate sport. If this were carried through to perfection, the problem of individual professionalism would be settled finally; for the spirit that moves anxious alumni to subscribe to funds that will aid so-and-so to stay...
...cannot be widely practiced but surely there are some good lectures every week at which many visiting students could be accommodated. With the permission to publish a list of the day's or week's outstanding lectures. The Daily Orange could aid in establishing vagabonding on a larger scale in the University. --The Daily Orange...