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...post-stock-crash Confidence Conferences. Mr. Young went, of course. He has never refused Herbert Hoover anything except, in 1928, his vote. He would hate to refuse Herbert Hoover anything and Mr. Hoover knows it. Regardless of what the Democrats do to make or unmake Mr. Young as presidential timber, it is unlikely that President Hoover needs to worry. He is probably the last Republican, as a person and as a type, that Democrat Young would choose to run against. The same is true in the case of Dwight Whitney Morrow, his onetime colleague on the General Electric board...
Wealth of Timber Material...
...area to New Hampshire, Vermont and Massachusetts. Despite the enormous consumption of newsprint in the U. S. and Canada, paper production is still greater. Prices are low. For the past year the I. P. & P. and its smaller competitors have been paying provincial governments toll for paper made from timber grown on Crown land, sold at a wholesale tonnage price...
Montreal rumors were to the effect that Premier Taschereau, backed by Ontario's Ferguson, had strongly hinted that unless I. P. & P. was willing to raise its price, Crown land leases would be canceled, timber land reallocated to Canadian pulp mills now shut down...
...everything the Crusaders could put on. Downes, a burly Sophomore center put on an exhibition of versatile and effective play such as has rarely been seen, and Murphy and Dixon proved themselves one of the best pair of ends in the whole country. The former looked like all-American timber with his bruising tackling and omnipresence, while it was only the mighty kicks of the latter that kept the Worcester boys at bay so successfully. They are a couple of players whom any coach could use. Holy Cross too had some fine men on the field, notably O'Connell...