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...chief rakers and re-hashers was a South Side apartment house builder and real estate reformer named John Joseph Mangan. He urged householders not to pay their taxes until the city government was purged. Cried he: "Kelly goes around with a prayer book in one hand, an empty bushel basket in the other." Mr. Mangan put out a tiny blue pamphlet called "Sanitary Kelly." Excerpts: "They call the new Mayor 'Sanitary Kelly' because he's so pure, clean and wholesome. He goes to church on Sunday. . . . BUT he was chief engineer of the infamous...
...Globe & Rutgers' rise did not bear out one of its pet theories on the New Deal market: ''Buy the worst stocks and make the most money." ¶ In Ohio last week eager purchasers were rushing out to the threshing floors, offering farmers $1 and $1.01 a bushel for wheat-the first time they have been offered $1 in three years. Threshing machine men upped their rental charges 25%. In the Chicago pit, wheat for May delivery touched $1.27¼ a bushel. But wheat was not the sensation of the pit. Rye outdid it. Rye (unfavored by Government...
...wheat pact, thus rendering it unfeasible, but her dynamic Resident Minister in London, Stanley Melbourne Bruce, onetime Premier, kept pestering Australian Premier Joseph Aloysius Lyons daily with long, urgent dispatches at 40? per word. Meantime as dry heat seared a U. S. crop already short, wheat soared 13? a bushel for the week. Texas wheat...
Under the new law, which the Senate was expected to pass this week, the State will collect from millers a progressively increasing tax on flour, proceeds from which will be used in efforts to raise wheat prices from $1.14 per bushel last week in France to $1.54 by July 15 and within the next year to $1.73. (Last week's price in Chicago...
Prices. No less amazing has been the rise in prices. Moody's index of sensitive commodity prices shot from 78.7 to 123.8 last week. Wheat has jumped from a 1933 low of 48¾? a bushel to 75½?, cotton from 5.90? a pound to 9.45?. copper from 5? a pound to 8? hogs from $2.85 a cwt. to $4.60. Between $2,000,000.000 and $3,000,000,000 has been added to the value of U. S. crops. A booming New Deal market has swelled stock values $12,000,000,000 and bond values...