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...nothing much else to do, they will probably sing, sleep or wax playful. Precisely that has occurred on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange almost every trading day for the past two months. Astonished visitors saw sights and heard sounds that would shake the faith of the blackest capitalist. Specialists dozed through raucous japery and ear-splitting versions of such old Floor favorites as "Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie" or "The Wearing of the Green." Oldsters yawned over backgammon, clerks wrestled and punched each other...
...York Times called "an armful of raw and bleeding figures." The figures were an unanalyzed summary of brokers' profits since 1927. Counsel Pecora knows how to give a sinister twist to any stated sum, particularly if it runs into nine or ten figures, and this time in blackest headlines he declared that New York Stock Exchange firms and members operating as individuals had made $906,000,000-"despite Depression." His report was based on answers to a questionnaire covering brokers' operations in the two fat years 1928 and 1929, the three lean years...
Last year when neither the Dutch nor the British could make money from their plantations, a conference was called to do something. Month after month in blackest secrecy talk went on in London and The Hague. Once last autumn it was reported that a tentative agreement had been reached but technical snags were struck. Finally in The Hague last week the British and the Dutch, acting as principals for eight Far Eastern rubber lands, which together produce about 95% of the world's supply, put their hands to a five-year restriction pact...
...between Yorks & Lancasters for the succession, Japan's War of the Chrysanthemums which lasted 56 years split the Empire. For Shogun Takauji Ashikaga, though he promulgated an admirable list of moral precepts, the Ashikaga Law Code, Japanese text books and histories still reserve the place of ''blackest traitor in the history of the Empire." In 1924 Baron Kumakichi Nakajima, potent ironmonger and merchant with a scholarly flair, attempted to whitewash Traitor Takauji in a magazine article, praising him as a vanquisher of despots and a lawgiver and concluded by renaming him Japan's Oliver Cromwell...
...fair contest to pick the blackest reactionaries in all Europe, Hungary's picturesque League of Awakened Magyars would win easily by several leopard skins- which Magyar nobles wear on state occasions slung across their hereditary, gold-frogged uniforms...