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...sharp rise in future contracts for cotton has greatly stimulated speculative interest throughout the South. The result has been that unscrupulous individuals in Manhattan have organized "odd-lot" cotton exchanges in order to bucket the orders of small customers. Many of the latter live at considerable distances from New York City, and are through inexperience unable to distinguish between the primary cotton market on the New York Cotton Exchange, and the mushroom imitations of it which crooks are so frequently ready to establish during a cotton boom. Officers of both the New York and New Orleans cotton exchanges are cooperating...
...right to kick the bucket over merely to gratify my own personal desire to be absolutely honest and sincere...
...that freight rates on export wheat be lowered if possible, President Coolidge shows at least a better understanding of the causes of cheap wheat than the farmers or their representatives. Lowered freight rates on wheat for internal markets as the latter demand, would be a mere drop in the bucket; while raising the import tariff on wheat would be like shutting out imports of dirt. There simply ain't no such animal. the reason for low prices is, as President Coolidge comprehends, the almost complete absence of a foreign market, and consequently a mass of grain, usually exported, tumbled upon...
...dealt largely with domestic economic problems-in contrast to last year's international speculations at the conference in Manhattan. Chief discussion topics: the Mid-West farmer revolt; sporadic distrust of bankers in general and the Street in particular; the attacks on the Federal Reserve system; the New York bucket shop exposeé: the return of competition to world markets...
...John Burke, thrice Governor of North Dakota and Treasurer of the United States under the Wilson administration. Mr. Burke waived immunity to come from Montana to testify concerning his part in the operations of the firm. He told a pitiful tale of ignorance concerning the affairs of the notorious bucket-shop of which he was a partner, and concerning the results of its failure upon his personal fortune...