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...Ecuador, Bolivia, China, Panama and Peru. In 1925 he analyzed the economic ills of the great nations of Europe, serving as the expert on currency and banking for the Dawes Committee. So sound and fruitful have been his labors that the name of Edwin Walte'r Kemmerer, Ph.D. stands topmost in the realm of fiscal theory and practice. Last week Money Man Kemmerer arose to make a pronouncement upon a currency which few people would ever have thought needed his attention. Yet the U. S. public as well as the Advertising Club (Manhattan), his luncheon host, seemed glad to hear...
...foil of its own--an effective aristocracy of intellect and service. California, with its State university (enjoying also large private endowments), its Stanford University and its institutions of superb technical and scientific equipment, is best served and is best able to serve the nation by maintaining these at topmost intellectual efficiency rather than by dissipating its funds in evoking sham universities out of junior colleges. California cannot hold her place in the educational van if she ceases to concentrate in the higher ranges while recruiting from every part of her democratic life. New York Times...
...supply jobs in Illinois, Detroit, New York (see below), wound up with this declaration: "As a nation we must prevent hunger and cold to those of our citizens who are in honest difficulties." In Boston the American Federation of Labor concluded its soth convention, at which Unemployment was topmost in the minds of the 418 delegates. A resolution was adopted calling upon President Hoover to appoint a national committee to deal more effectively with joblessness. (The President's Cabinet Commission was named 48 hours later...
Flag. Two priests, one Swiss, the other Italian, climbed last week to the topmost crag of the Matterhorn (climbed 40 years ago by the present Pope, then a priest) dragging after them a portable altar. Setting up the altar, they said mass, then unfurled for the first time outside the Papal State its flag: yellow and white, emblazoned with the Papal Tiara and Crossed Keys...
...Independence Week End President Hoover went to his Rapidan camp, rode horseback, worked over his Treaty message to the Senate. With him at the camp were Republican Senators Watson, McNary, Fess, Walcott. Topmost in the minds of all, though denials were later made that it was openly discussed at the camp, was the case of Claudius Hart Huston, chairman of the Republican National Committee whose political effectiveness has been damaged by the disclosure of his Muscle Shoals lobbying (TIME, March 31). Many had been the demands for Mr. Huston's resignation...