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...policy booster, President Roosevelt instructed the trustees of the Postal Savings Bank to buy $100,000.000 worth of U. S. bonds...
President Matthew Chauncey ("Matt") Brush of American International Corp. is a potent booster of gold stocks. To celebrate Ontario's gold boom, fortnight ago he and a platoon of Wall Street operators visited the Porcupine fields as guests of President John P. ("Jack") Bickell of Mclntyre Porcupine Mines and Charles McCrea, Ontario's Minister of Mines. During the inspection tour Mr. Brush got lost for a while in a deep gallery. At a dinner given in a curling rink, Mr. Bickell introduced a miner quartet, grimy, sweat-streaked, dressed in their working clothes: rubber coats, boots, breeches, helmets...
...seized upon by editors of the Literary Digest, who put big ads about it in the newspapers, as a circulation booster. It could not make copy fast enough for the gaping maws of newspaper "feature" sections...
Chief heckler was Indiana's loud Senator Robinson, a War veteran and ardent pension booster. "Outrageous!" he cried when Lobbyist Bullitt called most disability payments "doles, pure and simple," and pointed to Civil War pensions as a "bad principle." Senator Robinson tried to discredit N. E. L. by showing that Lobbyist Bullitt also represented Associated Gas & Electric, "one of the most reckless units in the power trust." The Indianian insisted N. E. L. was being supported by wealthy taxpayers trying to shirk their share of War costs...
...could be no better place to go for a selection as they all eater to some of the best jokes that wear pauts. Come on now if you have any guts and give us a reply you bunch of tin wash boards. See you in the common. A Legion Booster. Hyde Park, Mass...