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...ocean-going vessels to be routed through to the middle West because of their lower paying capacity than the lake boats, that the Canadian grain trade which would be sixty per cent of the marine commerce concerned, we can see that the waterway would be not only a great debit to the American taxpayer, but a very small benefit to the Middle Western shipper...
...play, Mr. Leon Janney, self or publicity-director styled movie star, is a beautiful blonde baby-faced boy of an apparent sixteen years. Mr. Janney handicaps his baby face with a nasal contralto voice. Mr. Janney would have an unsuccessful play at the Copley Theatre in Boston in his debit column, were it not for the inimitable sang-froid of Mr. Jack Egan, who, as the all-human political boss of Katonsville, Maryland, steals the show from the rest of the Katonsvillians, and makes an evening spent at the Copley a vaguely good thing...
...Senate's busy Prosecutor Ferdinand Pecora called on Exchange President Whitney, told him speculation must be curbed. Last week the Exchange announced two new rules: 1) brokers must report weekly to the Exchange all that they know of the operations of pools and syndicates; 2) traders with debit balances of over $5,000 must maintain margins equal to 30% of the debit balance; those with debit balances less than $5,000 must maintain a margin equal to 50% of the debit balance. Calculated in the ordinary way-the proportion of a trader's equity to the total value...
...calm method, combined with that strong admiration which most people feel in the presence of President Lowell's works, is sufficient to cover the man and to list his deeds. But strangely unwilling to go the whole way and make a rich panegyric he soon attempts to make a "debit-entry" for Mr. Lowell. The first entry is hazy enough, and probably means that President Lowell has had no part in the triumphant rise of a great Business School and a great Fogg Art Museum. But elsewhere we are told that Lowell is Harvard's dictator . . . and well there stands...
...Second entry is not a debit entry at all. It is a four-page mental searching in regard to Harvard's position in relation to other American Universities...