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...financial" sheet, The Wall Street Iconoclast, attacked margin trading on the New York Stock Exchange, advised widows & orphans to keep their money in savings banks, recommended the purchase of sound listed securities. But the Iconoclast also managed to keep such Rice stocks as Idaho Copper, General Mining and Colombia Emerald constantly in his readers' minds. He even had his own stock exchange, the Boston "Curb." When Rice stocks soared, shareholders would receive telegrams from Promoter Rice exhorting them not to sell. Presumably that was just the time that Promoter Rice did his best selling, for he is estimated...
...Last week the President set up another potent governmental special bureau: the Executive Commercial Policy Committee. Purpose: to supervise negotiations of all commercial treaties, such as are now anticipated between the U. S. and Sweden, Portugal, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Russia. Personnel: Walter J. Cummings (Treasury); Assistant Secretary Dickinson and Dr. Willard Thorp (Commerce); Assistant Secretary Tugwell (Agriculture); General William I. Westervelt (AAA); Oscar B. Ryder (NRA); Commissioners O'Brien and Page (Tariff Commission). Chairman pro tempore is Undersecretary of State Philipps...
Birdman Chapman's scientific reputation rests securely on two 700-page volumes on the distribution of bird life in Colombia and Ecuador...
...stop fighting her everlasting war with Bolivia over the Gran Chaco (TIME, July 17 et ante). Bolivia's refusal to sign indicated her resolve to battle on under German General Hans Kundt. Because the League of Nations has not yet finished adjudicating the Leticia dispute between Peru and Colombia which brought those nations to war (TIME, Feb. 6, et seq.) they refused to sign last week, as did Ecuador which adjoins the Leticia region and hopes to have a finger in the final settlement, peaceful or otherwise. Apart from the Anti-War Pact, by which Argentina and Brazil...
...Bogota. Colombia last week, in the midst of a Senate debate on state relief for large families, a Senator uprose to read a telegram just received announcing the birth of seven children, all boys, all living, to Carola and Luis Perez of San Pedro. Some U.S. newsreaders would have been more impressed if they had not just scanned Dr. Palmer Findley's The Story of Childbirth, published last fortnight.* Therein appears a picture of the medieval Italian, Dorothea, her monstrous abdomen supported by a neck-swung hoop, who gave birth to nine babies in her first pregnancy, eleven...