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...Seventeen Juniors and 12 Sophomores are up for election, from whom seven and three respectively will be picked. At the first meeting of the new council the membership will be rounded out to its full number of 15 by the appointment of three additional members from the Junior class and two from the Class...
Latterly great bond houses have trained up a generation of college bond saleswomen, who are always called "salesmen," who are always shouted at by the boss across a field of desks by their last names, and who smoke up the sales rooms. Seventeen ladies are actually partners in Stock Exchange houses. Three of them have applied to the Exchange authorities for admission to membership. "Too much jostling on the floor," the 15 gentlemen of the Committee on Admissions have always sternly replied. "No worse than subways or night-clubs," is the reply of the eager ladies...
...Dickey waited, for reasons of church policy, seventeen years after Mrs. Eddy's death, at the hands of her "enemies" in 1910, to keep his promise. He, like his leader, died before he had finished his work, so his wife finished the book for him and saw it through the press in 1927. Five hundred copies were printed. When Clifford P. Smith, chairman of the Church committee on publication, requested Mrs. Dickey to suppress the book, she did so, even recalling the copies which she had sent to Mr. Dickey's former pupils. Two copies recently arrived...
...make all the boots and shoes needed annually in America in about six months and you can blow all the window glass needed in America in seventeen days. You can dig all the coal necessary in six months with the men now in the industry. Because of our increase in population in the last eight or ten years it now should take 140 men to supply the needs of the country where 100 could do so. Instead of that and in spite of our having 20,000,000 more people, the needs of the country are fully supplied with...
...three years old, and he went to his mother's people on the New Reservation, sixty miles west of Topeka. At the age of nine he turns up in the white man's end of Kansas as a jockey, riding races at the county fairs. At the age of seventeen Curtis left the track and got a job driving a hack in Topeka. By day he went to school. By night he drove his cab. Forming a friendship with a lawyer, he became interested in the law, and studied in his small spare time...