Word: topicalities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Methods of hedging against Inflation within U. S. frontiers have become a favorite coffee-&-cognac topic. Purchase of industrial stocks is, of course, the most popular hedge, but commodities and land have been creeping up fast since the NRA threatened profits with higher labor costs. Some shrewd businessmen with little capital at stake argue that the best thing is to go as deep into debt as the banks (or friends) will allow; eventually they will pay off with cheaper dollars. Carl Sriyder, economist for the Federal Reserve Board, was asked lately by a wealthy friend how he could hedge against...
...however, presumptuous to suppose that a puff of enthusiasm from the rostrum would be enough to hold a student's interest. It will only be when both the teacher and the taught recognize the newness of each topic to the student that an academic millennium will be attained. By that time, both may be sliding together...
That favorite topic for the reporters of the middle west to fall back on--the World's Fair--has been banned from the pages of New England newspapers. All the reporters on the Boston metropolitan dailies, for instance, have been given orders not to mention the Fair. Yankees must not know there is such a thing. They must spend their summer and their money here...
...Educating for World Citizenship" will be the topic of an address by B. M. Cherrington, executive secretary of the Foundation for the Advancement of the Social Sciences at the University of Denver, when he will speak to summer school students Wednesday evening, August 9 at 8 o'clock in Emerson D. The talk is free and open to the public...
Developments in the field of Zoology during the last century will from the topic of a lecture by Rederick Macdonald, assistant professor in Zoology, on Thursday afternoon at 4 o'clock in the Large Lecture Room in the Biological Institute on Divinity Avenue. The lecture will be the fourth in a series on the progress of science in the last 100 years. The lecture is intended for the layman, so that a knowledge of Zoology will not be necessary in order to follow Dr. Macdonald's talk. It is expected that the lecturer will confine himself to the more familiar...