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Last week President Roosevelt fired a broadside of facts & figures to confound the "widow-&-orphan" argument. Releasing a special survey made by the Federal Power Commission, he pointed out that the six biggest New York life insurance companies had placed only 9% of their assets in utility securities, that 15 other insurance companies averaged less than 10%, that New York State savings banks averaged less than 3%. Furthermore, the utility bonds of 51 big insurance companies showed an aggregate increase in value since 1929 of $109,000,000. Adding that prime utility operating bonds were now selling at the highest...
Daily, this alphabetical society has been seeking to confound its enemies with some new morsel of statistics and research. Most of them pass over out poor undergraduate domes. But the latest and most interesting item deserves immediate pursuit by every expert in research, and all the statistics which Harvard University can muster to its defence...
...Author La Farge frequently varies the metre, not always with happy effect. His easy narrative blank verse, with no straining after mighty lines, needs no such purplish patching. Close to prose, his verse is acclimatized to the salty New England accent: "Gracious to dearie me!" cried old Mrs. Slocum, "Confound this floor, by guy, I most to fell." "What's the matter, Ma?" called a voice from the darkness. "Mighty near bust my toe off's what's the matter. Told that boy a dozen times if I told him Once that he'd ought...
Seven times since pneumonia laid him low Melvin Traylor collapsed beyond all hope of recovery. Seven times since he took to his bed last month, the Chicago banker rallied to confound his doctors. One morning last week his heart stopped for two minutes. That evening he stirred from coma to whisper: "How tired I am!" At 11 o'clock the doctors called the family. After seven minutes the stout Traylor heart stopped beating for good...
Through all of them runs the western impress of practicality; the bocca della verita was an eminently useful contrivance, and Virgil's talismanic glass fly was used, not to confound the people, but to rid their meat markets of flies and their cities of infection. A magician Virgil was, but a magician with a purpose, a great seer who bent his black art to the relief of human misery and the improvement of human society, and who had his place in the cosmic optimism of the middle...