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Cried Mr. Crowley: "You flatter yourselves if you believe the Government wishes to enter your institutions. . . . The Government is merely trying to protect depositors. ... On March 31, 1934 the book capital of 630 banks in this State amounted to $89,000,000. The total deposits amounted to $540,000,000. Upon the basis of examination recently made, it appears that the net sound capital in these 630 banks is about $50,000,000. In other words, the total net sound capital investment in Wisconsin banks amounts to less than 10% of the total deposit liability. This is an unhealthy situation...
...American Magazine for October is a typical example of a "college circulation drive." The "big news" at Harvard now is its new president, James Bryant Conant; ergo an article on the same will make the far-flung readers notice the broad interests of the editors, and will also flatter the young Cantabrigians into a twelve-months subscription. Written by a noted sportswriter, a great pal of our prexy, to judge from the incessant "Jim" in the biography, the article also marks another tract of the serious prose which has been occupying our newspaper sports-columnists more than it should. Last...
...aspects of the Bible, historical, linguistic, sociological, economic, literary, which can properly be taken up in one half-course. By the time of the final exam, the student has explored a masterpiece of two nations along many levels, most of which he had not before suspected, and he may flatter himself that he knows one work, if not thoroughly, at least whole. There will be less temptation for him to cut meetings of this course, incidentally, than almost any other he can take; the prospect of a reading from the professor is enough to draw even the most reluctant student...
Because of the simplicity of the play, a good deal of old-fashioned proverbialism is expressed with considerable force, but nowhere does the play flatter itself into searching after Truth. The weak and henpecked husband, and the wilful, self-seeking, and unattractive wife and elder daughter are all foiled in the end when the younger sister marries the hero, and Mr. Connelly and a forger are thwarted in their attempt to swindle Miss Lord and dupe the world of art; the most admirable touch of all is that the benevolently paternal and sophisticated art critic of the Herald Tribune brings...
...beheld Mr. Roosevelt's tactics he cried "Demagog!" at his old friend "Frank," hotly declared he would "take off my coat & vest and fight to the end against any candidate" who tried to set class against class, rich against poor. But as the campaign progressed, the Governor continued to flatter and comfort a vague and various mass of the electorate by charging that President Hoover had overlooked them in administering Depression relief...