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When the settlers of California dreamed mundane dreams of shiny streets of gold, they turned to an old Spanish custom and called California an El Dorado...
...Lure of El Dorado" Professor Haring, Sever...
...backed by a syndicate of such famed figures as onetime (1913-16) Ambassador to Turkey Henry Morgenthau, President Harbord of the Radio Corp., John T. Underwood (typewriters) and onetime Vice President Raymond B. Small of the Postum Cereal Co. It has given every evidence of being a proverbial El Dorado to its investors. Major General Davis, soon-to-be Photomaton president, was born in Lancaster, Pa., Oct. 12, 1876, graduated from West Point in 1898, was a first lieutenant during the Spanish-American War. During the World War he was Adjutant General of the A. E. F. In April...
...ludicrous. Here he was, a planner of big things and a doer of them, a substantial, efficient person who left nothing to chance, actually tripped and frustrated by an obstacle which had seemed microscopic only yesterday. He was a lion laid low by a mouse, a pilgrim to El Dorado who had stepped on a dust adder...
...economic skies still are cloudless. Nevertheless, not all second and third mortgages are going to be worth their weight in gold presently. Neither is the stockmarket an El Dorado all the time...