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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...months ago Critic Alfred Frankenstein of the San Francisco Chronicle received a letter from a small boy in Australia named Peter Buxton. Peter wanted to know the answers to some questions about "Mr. Yehudi" (Menuhin). Critic Frankenstein was so taken with Peter's knowledgeable prattle that he appointed him the Chronicle's Critic-Down-Under. Last week Critic Buxton's last year's concert-hall impressions were made public under the heading Reasume...
...businessmen-whose rising sales that year were more than offset by aggregate weakening of working capital-the steady downtrend in TIME'S Index from February to September 1929 gave ample warning that houses should be put in order, inventories cut and debts reduced. (And if enough businessmen had taken those steps, TIME'S Index-and all other indexes-would doubtless have showed a far less depressing downtrend in the sorry years from...
...bland as ever, was in new trouble. Again he went on trial in Manhattan for using the mails to defraud. According to Assistant U. S. Attorney Leo Fennelly, who has helped run down many a noted swindler (including Banker Joseph Harriman), Promoter Bob had sunk so low he had taken to selling gold bricks. In 1932 he acquired Bankers Service Co., which was founded in 1908 to solicit accounts for savings banks and which he turned to investment counseling. Its chief counsel, according to the charge, was to advise suckers to switch their investments to two virtually defunct gold mines...
Last night it was learned from J. Wilcox Brown, general manager of the club, that the University officials had taken no action, and that a permit had been wired from the Liquor Commission at Concord, New Hampshire...
From the ranks of those who answered the postcards in the affirmative, P. B. H. has a nucleus of administrators for any program they may wish to undrtake. Now that the first step has been taken and the seed sown, the future success of the committee in solving the difficult problem of acclimation depends largely upon the wisdom of their subsequent program of action...