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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Onetime (1911-12) Premier of France Joseph Caillaux was reported to have discussed last week the subject of alimony awards by French courts in somewhat boastful fashion with a group of U. S. lawyers, including famed Dudley Field Malone...
Written in the mood, somewhat in the setting of South Wind (sophisticated classic by Norman Douglas) this book has some of its characteristics-a sharp satire, a style of suave surprises. But through its pages blows not a strong and pungent sirocco; instead a slow and tepid wind in which insects may hover lazily. Author Faulkner in this casual and breezy work seems always on the verge of an important irony which he never produces. His second novel is a step up in technique, a step down in importance from his powerful Soldiers...
Valuation. The Interstate Commerce Commission last week announced that it considered the New York Central Railroad, including the lesser railroads of the system, worth $1,038,265,810. That was as of June 30, 1917, and might be, thought the I. C. C., somewhat less than the 1927 valuation. It would be easy to figure the' difference. Newspaper financial writers hastily calculated that the N. Y. C. was worth today $1,285,438,000. Last year the system's net income from operating trains (income from stock and land investments is figured separately) was $72,158,000-less...
...under the heading "Success and the Birth-Rate". After numerous surveys of broad cross sections of the population the tabulated results have inevitably pointed to a depressing state of race suicide among the classes best fitted sociologically. Mr. Phillips in his most recent study of the question advances along somewhat different lines, aiming at reproduction rates within one particular occupational group, --namely three graduating classes of Harvard College, 1899, 1900, and 1991. His findings, then, offer no hope in an alarming situation of increasing sterility among the college graduate class, but they do indicate some very significant and happy trends...
...Yorkers want and need cabs at all hours. The Times, without warning, waxed humorous, and said: "Mr. McAdoo may be pardoned the slight hyperbole. It has been scientifically demonstrated that the average load of a taxicab in these parts is .83 of a passenger. Private automobiles offend to a somewhat less degree, averaging 1.7 passengers and just a trace of dog -generally...