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...Martin Insull's transactions. Flexner went to Martin Insull, who had Middle West Utilities Co., of which he was president, give Flexner checks for $344,000 to buy the collateral. Thus Martin Insull's brokerage account was cleared and Middle West Utilities was left holding stock now worthless...
Dinitrophenol has temporarily cast a shade over other reducing drugs and compounds. Hundreds of them are on the market, with widely varying formulas, but the facts about them are simple. Prime fact is that all are either harmful, worthless or both. Most are simply laxatives, for it is possible to reduce weight by hurrying food through the system before it can be properly digested. Some compounds contain thyroid extract which, by speeding metabolism, does reduce weight but with much possible harm...
...which is the more important: abstract ideals or human lives. Do we live for the sake of living or because we in some modest way attempt to justify our existence? It appears that without the driving impulse of certain ideals and aims our lives would be drab and worthless. Individuals will fight to the bitter end for the ideals they cherish and nations will continue to do so by any means they see fit, by war if necessary. If Nazi Germany finds her ideals threatened by unsympathetic neighbors she will not hesitate to defend them and her great Further will...
Last month Chicago's swank Union League Club papered a private dining room with nearly 2,000 worthless bonds and stock certificates, called it the Million-dollar Room. Last week in Chicago a noisy rabble of 10,000 bondholders from 22 states marched down Michigan Boulevard tossing equally worthless bonds on the street, trampling them with vicious whoops. Led by Governor William Langer of North Dakota, they shouted, "We've been robbed." displayed banners reading: "WE HAVE BONDS, BUT NO BREAD." "DILLINGER AND CAPONE ARE AMATEURS." Thousands of spectators jampacked the sidewalks as the three-mile procession rolled...
Hutchins criticized the House Plan, saying: "The West can never use the House Plan. It is too expensive, it does not consider co-education, and the problem of men living at home." To condemn the plan as worthless on these grounds is unthinking. Equally superficial is his second criticism which states that the House Plan puts too great emphasis on the social and moral virtues of University education at the expense of intellectual virtues. Unlike the unorganized dormitory or fraternity system prominent in most American universities the Harvard House Plan definitely stresses intellectual rather than social virtues. Being in close...