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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...industry. Total new financing up to Aug. 31 reached the figure of $4,231,847,000-money raised at the rate of a half billion a month or six billion a year. This figure included stocks, bonds and notes, but did not include real estate or municipal securities either in this country or Canada. Except for a comparatively small amount of financing by Canadian corporations and by foreign corporations, cities and governments, it represented the money used either to bring new U. S. businesses into existence or to make larger U. S. businesses already established...
Leading Houses. Whence came the $4,231,847,000 total? Ultimately from U. S. pockets, of course, but more directly through financing houses. A financing house takes part in new financing in one of two ways-it either assumes the responsibility of floating the new issue or it participates in floating an issue which some other house has sponsored. In the second case, it is a participant in a syndicate, in the first case it is the syndicate head, except when it does not invite any participants but handles the entire job itself, Most houses are syndicate heads in some...
...partner then must bid. If he has not two quick tricks, his bid must be one diamond, no matter how much length he has in any particular suit, and you may then declare your real strength. If he has two quick tricks, he is given the choice of bidding either a no-trump or his best suit. (If that suit be diamonds, he must bid two diamonds.) Obviously, the advantage of the Vanderbilt bid lies in the fact that the bidding is kept open and the strong three-trick hand is allowed to bid again after learning the strength...
...inherited any of her father's talent for sculpture, she replied that her only art lay in moving her legs; but that she liked dancing so well that she intended to make it her life work. "My poor, dear teacher," she said, with little trace of either pity or affection, "was Turassof. Of course eventually I intend to do concert work. For the present, however I shall continue in musical comedy with my partner Mlle. Lezandre, who also dances in this show. Although Mlle. Lezandre and I have little in common in the plot of the present performance...
...early publication of figures compiled by the Student Council Committee on the Budget marks the inauguration of a policy that has heretofore been largely overlooked either through carelessness or through failure to appreciate a responsibility toward the large body of undergraduates in whose interests such services are performed. The average student who wearily wends his way through lines of registration desks, CRIMSON and Lampoon agents, laundry or pressing solicitors, is prone to overlook the full significance of the cash contribution or pledge filled out in impatient anticipation of escaping the toils of enrolment...