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...last act does Shaw cry out in a loud voice what his puppets (and most of them were but taken out and dusted for this occasion) have been discovering for themselves,--that nearly everything is liumbug, and that nothing remains today for most of us but a bottomless...
...Money. But the Federal Reserve is not a bottomless cash box from which countless millions of dollars can be paid out to member banks. Whence, therefore, will come all the money needed to make all the new loans? To this question there is a combination of interrelated answers. The broadest concept of the Glass-Steagall bill is that it will materially enlarge the Federal Reserve's power to stop member bank failures. As failures decline, hoarders of currency would be encouraged to redeposit their cash. Such redeposits. in turn, would strengthen banks and reduce their demands for more loans from...
There are two causes behind this paradox. One is the natural desire of donors to see their gift take permanent and tangible form, as in a building, and their natural reluctance to sink money in the bottomless pool of unattached funds. The other important factor that has been overlooked is the lack of proportion shown in apportioning money within a given fund. It is bad planning of this sort that decks house libraries lavishly with Oriental rugs while it scrimps on accomodations for the tutors who are so essential to the full working of the house plan...
...chief's son, has grown as beautiful as her mother. Orin's mind has become deranged. Peter Niles wants to marry Lavinia, his sister wants to marry Orin. But Orin threatens to air the family's bloody linen if Lavinia leaves him. Seeking peace in a "bottomless hell," he then proposes to his sister that they live together as man-&-wife. His reaction to her disgust is to shoot himself. Her fiance guesses, quite correctly, the worst...
...them and onto the same lap leaps a flop-eared and gangly puppy dog while the grandfather is at breakfast? . . . The puppy dog can see and reach the presidential plate. . . . A lightning-like snip is made and a carefully fried egg, prepared for President Hoover himself, disappears into that bottomless pit that is every puppy dog's stomach...