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...banks had closed, Evanston, Des Plaines, Washington Park and Beverly Hills had been added, along with other communities, to U. S. towns where bank failures have caused suffering. Biggest of these was North-Western Trust & Savings Bank, affiliated with the Foreman group, with $14,000,000 in deposits. Smallest was Industrial State Bank with only $265,000 entrusted to it. Total deposits in the 29 banks were almost $75,000,000. Talk of re-openings was widely heard...
...were difficulties at first: Senator Stanford died in 1893 and while his estate was tied up the Stanford faculty went unpaid until Mrs. Stanford managed to persuade a court to put the professors on her payroll as personal servants. In 1906 came the earthquake which destroyed all but the smallest and lowest of the buildings. But Stanford's rise was phenomenal, unequalled by any U. S. institution until Duke University was chartered in 1924 (TIME, April...
Oldest mayor in the party came from the smallest town. He was Alvin Parker Gray, 78, of Pasco, Wash. (pop. 3,500). He said he was going to "team-up" with the youngest mayor, R. B. Marvin of Syracuse, N. Y., who is 33. Bigger and louder than even St. Louis' Victor J. ("Oh, Boy") Miller was Mayor George L. Baker of Portland, Ore. Large, breezy, beetle-browed Mayor Baker lost no time in making himself the personage of the party. He wore a 10-gallon hat, was elected chairman of the delegation, gave out the big interview during...
...satisfaction of a patriotic service to one's own country. Considering the amount of space in history, and in current events, which diplomacy occupies, and the amount of public attention which it has always received, it is surprising to note that it is without question one of the smallest professions. There are probably less than 12,000 officials in the whole world in the combined Diplomatic, Consular and Foreign Office Services of all Powers, and if we should take the Diplomatic establishment alone, it would presumably be about a quarter of this number, or some...
...gasoline tax rate ranged from 2¢ per gal. in Massachusetts,? Connecticut, New York, Rhode Island, Missouri, Wisconsin up to 6^ in South Carolina, Georgia, Florida. Ohio with a 4^ rate made the largest collection ($37,081,451), Nevada the smallest ($675,012). New York motorists used the most gasoline (1,438,582,-716 gal.), California the next (1,162,337,-545 gal.). The average U. S. motorist burned up 556 gal. in the course of the year, on which his tax was $18.62. (Average automobile registration...