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...Young Plan the total was fixed at $8,806,000,000 cash. On the instalment plan, over an agreed stretch of 58 years, this sum will become, with cumulative 5% interest, 27 billions. This sum, huge though it sounds, is 116 billions less than the creditor nations demanded at Versailles ten years...
Parlor magic, unlike most other divisions of skill and science, is far from dominated by professionals. Unknown to the public are numberless amateurs. They play a game of baffle among themselves. Some 500 members, amateur and professional, of the Society of American Magicians (total membership about 1,650), held their annual convention last week in Manhattan and brotherly baffling was the order of the hour. The magicians dined and danced. Then, in secret session, they baffled each other and exchanged secrets about new or improved apparatus, magicianly "patter" (conversation) and humor, the art of distracting the attention of the tricked...
Congregationalists. Fired with like hopes, closer to realization than the Presbyterians, the National Council of Congregational Churches in the United States voted unanimously last week at Detroit to join with the General Convention of Christian Churches in a union whose leadership will total about 1,080,000 souls. To their proposal Dr. Warren H. Denison of Dayton, executive secretary of the General Christian Convention, who attended the Congregational council as corresponding member, gave hearty approbation. Amid cheers, he expressed belief that the body he represented would approve the merger at its meeting in Piqua, Ohio, in October...
Taylor, Ewart & Co., Inc., Chicago investment bankers, last week announced a suspension of business. The "frozen" condition of $6,000,000 in assets left the company unable to meet the calling of $4,000,000 in loans. Taylor, Ewart & Co., established in 1911, has distributed securities with a total value of more than $50,000,000. It recently took part in the syndicate underwriting of many new issues, many of which have been among the notable contributors to present slumps in stock prices. It was admitted that the suspension might become permanent...
...nine annual meets of the Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America, a track team from California has come out on top. Last year and the year before the winner was Stanford. Last week, on Franklin Field in Philadelphia, it was Stanford again, with 45 3/8 points, the highest total since...