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Last week in its 137th year Roosevelt & Son announced a complete breakup in anticipation of the provision of the Banking Act of 1933 which requires private bankers to segregate their banking business from their securities business before next June. Thus the oldest investment firm in Wall Street became the first to submit to the new Roosevelt rule...
...rumbled. Fissures opened in its slopes, oozed warm earth. Surface rock, amateurishly estimated as 25 million tons, avalanched down into Animas Valley to the north and might have rumbled on into Durango> did not Smelter Mountain intervene as a retaining wall. But Durango's citizens were calm. The breakup of Carbon Mountain has been going on since mid-December...
...they were that too) but because he had no money and because he was regarded as unsound by the Junkers, whom they worshipped. Unbeknownst to her parents, lovely Lenore called frequently at Bertin's shabby room; they considered themselves modern and happy. Then came August 1914, mobilization, breakup. After Lenore came home from a visit to Bertin's camp she found she was pregnant. Things being what they were and Bertin and herself too young to know better, there was nothing for it but an abortion. Luckily her parents were away on a holiday, her young brother David...
...rest of China. Chang Hsueh-liang is the son of Chang Tso-lin, one of the most picturesque Chinese characters to emerge since the death of that grand old lady, the Empress Dowager Tzu-hsi. Chang Tso-lin was a bandit who made himself master of Manchuria before the breakup of the Empire in 1911, and then developed streaks of patriotism. He was extremely proud of his nickname, "The Old Tiger," which originated in his drooping mustaches and his striped mandarin robes.* In the Tiger Room of his Mukden palace he kept enormous stuffed Manchurian tigers, served cups of what...
...inebriates' home" hot David apparently meant the Conservative Party, though Sir John Simon had not taken that step last week. But what if Lloyd George should die? Would it mean the breakup of Liberalism? Would self-righteous Sir John lead the remaining Liberals to the inebriates' home too? Would it mean the end of the Labor Government...