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...Banco, formed in 1929, paid fancy prices for its unit banks, indulged in high-pressure stock selling campaigns. And its 18,000 stockholders watched their investment fade from a high of $99 per share to about $3. Early in the New Deal, having noted the fun the Senate Banking & Currency Committee was having in Washington, Governor Olson began to kettledrum about how Northwestern investors had been swindled out of $100,000,000. Forthwith he ordered his commerce commission to investigate...
...President every year. He is a member of the Cabinet, and even as President he attends to his duties as Minister of his Portfolio. For instance, President Minger still is Minister of War. After his term as President is over with the end of the year, he does not fade out of the political picture altogether, but still is a member of the Cabinet. The Vice President of the year automatically becomes President in the following year. In other words, Mr. Minger was Vice President during 1934, and this year's Vice President will be President...
...what sort of social order we may have. ... It is conceivable that a type of society might arise in which there would be great material prosperity and a highly developed technology but no spiritual and intellectual freedom. Under such stifling conditions all vital interest in art and literature would fade and enthusiasm for pure thought would vanish; what would remain would be a barbarism which all the radios and automobiles and skyscrapers in the world would not conceal. In such a desert, the applied scientists, essential for a smooth operation of the complex mechanism, might be the only men with...
What is to happen next? By analogy with other novae, we can make a rough prediction. The star will fade slowly away, at first flickering as it fades, but at last the star will become steadily dim. Most novae have returned at last to their original brightness, so we may expect this one to sink once more to the fourteenth magnitude from which it rose. But the fall in brightness, if we may judge from present progress, will take several years, perhaps as many...
Lawyer Donald Randall Richberg, like a new star in the Washington heavens, reached his zenith directly over the White House, only to start to fade...