World War Era Summit Opens In Washington
Silas H Strawn opened the International Chamber of Commerce sessions in Washington. Hoover urged slashing armament costs and called for a broad revision of postwar economic policy. Theunis criticized tariffs, Traylor urged reform of floor trading and margins, and a Chicago jubilee for May 10 to 20 was announced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Finance
Washington
International Chamber of Commerce
Silas H. Strawn
Chicago
Chamber of Commerce of
United States
Georges Theunis
Hoover
League of Nations
M. Theunis
United States Chamber of Commerce
Atlantic City
Melvin A. Traylor
America
Traylor
R. Strawn
Midwest
Loop
Fort Dearborn
Boy Scouts of America
National Council
Memphis
Walter W. Head
Mortimer Schiff
New York
Dan Beard
Boy Scouts
Lord Hampton
Griffith Ogden Hills
The
American Boys Magazine
Lewis Gantry
Vast Laboratory of Science and Citizenship in State Universities
A Western Newspaper Union summary of how state universities extend beyond classrooms and sports into major contributions. The piece cites the University of Illinois as a leading example with innovations like the Babcock milk test, concrete and steel research, agricultural advances, and cost-saving industrial methods, arguing the institutions repay public funding through broad societal gains. The article highlights how research benefits dairy, farming, and industry, urging readers to view universities as vast laboratories for science and citizenship.
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Middle West
New York
Stephen Moulton Babcock
Doctor Babcock
Urnell University
New York Agricultural Experiment Station
University of Wisconsin
University of Witnois
University of Illinois
America
Chicago
Philadelphia
Department of Railway Engineering
The
University
Testa
Prairie
Illinois
University Soil Experiment
Umestone
Timnois
Illinois Natural History Survey
United States Department of Agriculture
Toledo
Ohio
University of Illinois College of Agriculture
Twinois
Ali
State University
College of Agriculture
Western Newspaper Union
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M. A. Traylor
Edward W. Pickard
Silas H. ‘Strawn
BRE
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Robert de Francis
District of Columbia Supreme Court
Leo A. Rover
Francis
A. B.fall
Albert B. Fall
Supreme Court of the United States
Secretary of the Interior
Fall
New Mexico
Agyosaes
Park Lane Hotel
New York City
Kermit Roosevelt
Herbert Hoover
John Sloane
August Belmont
BE. Marshall Field
Mrs. Kermit Roosevelt
Hst
Margaret Ayer Barnes
Bernadette H. Schmitt
University of Chicago
Susan Glaspell
Alison
Henry James
Charles W
Charles W. Eliot
Robert Frost
A. B. Macdonald
Kansas City Star
H. R. Knickerbocker
Philadelphia Ledger
C. S. Ryckman
Fremont
Neb
Eorge Fisher Baker
Tuxedo Park
Baker
Atiic
Pfrench
Little Entente
Oif
Entente
Berlin
Germany
M. Briand
Czechoslovakia
HINA
China
Shanghai
Tientsin
Mukden
Canton
Chiang Kaishek
Miles Lampson
Chiang ‘Kai-shek
Chen Chi-tang
Chiang
Kwangtung
Kwangsi
Doumergup
France
Vincennes Park
Italy
Belgium
Brazil
Denmark
Holland
Portugal
Indo-China
Equatorial Africa
Madagascar
Mount Vernon
Carmona
Madeira Island
Magalhenas Correia
Funchal
Legation
Madeira
Lisbon
Apan
Seiji Yoshihara
Tokyo
Washington, D. C
Hachi Shimbun
Japan
Kuriles
Petropavlovsk
Kamchatka
Bering Sea
Aleutian Islands
Alaskan
Seward
Vancouver
Seattle
San Francisco
National
Yoshihara
South America
Bolama
Portuguese Guinea
Ull
Hejaz
Nejd
Ibn Saud
Chiang Kalshek
Elmo Scott Watson
University of Iulnole
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