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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dick & Harry. First witness was Thomas William Lament of the House of Morgan. His smiling courtesy, his unruffled frankness, his quiet manners charmed and disarmed hostile Senators. In great detail he explained how his house -merchants, not bankers-had issued $1,807,578 worth of foreign securities since 1920, how each loan had been distributed through syndicates, how the profits ("spread") had always been kept reasonable. He denied that the House of Morgan had "coerced" any firm to buy its bonds, that U. S. banks were "loaded up" with these foreign securities...
Prime witness for the defense was James Clifton Stone, the Board's harassed chairman. He at last revealed the Board's market dealings in detail...
...Tribune, as well as the News, reported the news that one Harry M. Kernan, housepainter of East Orange, N. J., had won $53,250 on his $2.50 lottery ticket on Signifier, who finished second in the Manchester race (see p. 42 ). Both newspapers carried the lottery story in complete detail, with no apparent concern over what the Post Office might do about...
...hardly necessary to set forth in detail here all the reasons why students should select this voluntary course. Many of them are axiomatic and self-evident. Whatever else the purposes of a college education may be, one of them is to develop the reasoning powers of the student. To learn how to think, and to think accurately and rapidly, is one of the hardest tasks in the world, so says a writer on debating, while to expound the conclusions of one's thinking to an untrained audience so clearly that the audience understands the speaker's point of view...
Professor Nordal will give his second address on December 4 in the large Lecture Room of Fogg Museum at 4 o'clock, when he will take up the Icelandic verse in more detail under the topic "The Old Poetry." The other two talks in this course fall on the following Mondays at the same time and place...