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...houses with staffs geared to drowsy 700,000-share days joyously recalled old employes to help handle the fat business of 5,500,000 shares daily. Wall Street's lights for the first time in many a month burned far into the night. Reflecting the swollen volume, a boomlet developed in Exchange seats. A Big Board seat sold for $120.000 against a low last May of $62,000. Curb memberships jumped from $16,500 to $28.500. "How late is the tape?" rang familiarly around board rooms. On the two biggest days the U. S. Treasury gained nearly...
...leaders went about looking mysterious, announced a further unemployment conference for next week. The conference rumors, added to a late bulletin announcing that the previous week's unemployment figures had been reduced by 32,780, were just enough to send The City kicking up its heels in the first "boomlet" in months...
Heflin. Certain Southerners began a boomlet for Senator J. Thomas Heflin of Alabama. Mr. Heflin is the Senator who during the last session of Congress remarked : "A Catholic bullet brought Roosevelt down. . . . If I am murdered many Catholic priests will pay the penalty. . . ." Of him Senator William Cabell Bruce of Maryland said: "I am afraid he will never be still till he has worn his tongue down to his tonsils." Though Senator Heflin was reported to be "in a receptive mood" the movement was considered anti-Smith rather than pro-Heflin...