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...suicide evil is the most sinister specter of our national life, next to murder, which marks the U. S. as the most murderous nation on the face of the globe,'' wrote Consulting Statistician Dr. Hoffman for this week's Spectator. "There is the most urgent need for the organization of a national society for the study and prevention of suicide based on sound principles of voluntary service to render aid and advice to those in desperate need...
...marketable securities." Reynolds Tobacco has described its investment in its own stock as "investment in noncompetitive companies." The railroads, because of the prescribed I. C. . accounting system, are models of honesty. Such leading companies as General Motors and U. S. Steel give enough data for anyone except a super-statistician. While some companies may discontinue reporting sales, businessmen last week were satisfied that the trend is distinctly towards more publicity of figures, consideration of investors...
...Louis Israel Dublin, statistician for Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., discovered by investigating 38,269 Eastern college graduates that Phi Beta Kappa men and honor students live longer than athletes and plain graduates...
...Babson Park, Fla. Roger Ward Babson, famed statistician, fell from a horse and broke his foot. In Los Angeles. Cinemactor Reginald Denny was thrown from his horse in a polo game and injured. In Columbus, Ohio, Mary and Charlotte White, daughters of Governor George White, were slightly hurt in an automobile accident...
...against one Republican. In far-off Washington President Hoover, nervously aware of the election's significance, called for the returns, studied them with downcast eyes. For him they spelled another defeat because a Democrat by the name of Richard Mifflin Kleberg was elected. The President needed no political statistician to tell him that this meant that the House, his legislative mainstay for the last two years, was now lost to him, that it would line...