Word: callings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Heedful of President Hoover's call, the 71st Congress prepared to gather at the Capitol April 15 for its first or extraordinary session. Countless Congressmen remained in Washington after the Hoover Inaugural, but their consciences troubled them not at all at collecting from the U. S. their legal travel allowance of 20? a mile to carry them to their political homes and back. Two legislative subjects were to be dealt with at this special session: Farm Relief, Tariff Revision. Many another pressed forward hopefully for consideration. Chief of these were: 1) Repeal of the National Origins quota system...
...fact the ritual of farm relief hear- ings became so stupid that Oklahoma's Senator Thomas proposed a means of enlivening them. He would call tycoons of industry and finance?Henry Ford, John Pierpont Morgan, Charles Michael Schwab, Paul Moritz Warburg, Owen D. Young, John Davison Rockefeller Jr., Andrew William Mellon?and have them say what was wrong with the farmer...
...director. Last week it reported on its first four months of corporate life. Scanners of its balance sheet were somewhat puzzled to account for the ten million dollar estimate of size. The company had $186,000 cash on hand and in banks, $350,000 in the call loan market, some $78,000 in fixed assets. Of its $9,509,866.44 total assets, no less than $8,892,604.89 consisted of book value of patents and patent rights...
Slapper Mitchell. Activities of Banker Mitchell as Wall Street rescuer and Federal Reserve Bad Boy turned upon his offer to put $25,000,000 into the call money market. Inasmuch as call money had reached 20% during the famed 8,000,000 share turnover market-break (TIME, April i), the assurance of available funds had a tremendous moral effect. For traders were not so much worried about a 20% rate as about the fact that even at 20% money was not available. Thus the Mitchell announcement stabilized the market, much to the disgust of the Federal Reserve Board, which...
...view of the sad demise of the Dramatic Club's last effort, the general decline of the standard of that organization, and the concern over their impending production. I would like to call the undergraduate attention to the following excerpts from a Dramatic periodical, in an issue-some years past...