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According to the stockmarket's omniscient policeman, Mr. Meehan had been jiggling Bellanca since last April, using the old but now forbidden device of "matched orders''-buying & selling simultaneously to create an appearance of market activity. This is done to make the public think that something exciting is about to happen in the stock under manipulation, lure them in as buyers. Jiggled or not, Bellanca rose from a low this year of $1.75 per share to a high of $5.50. Last week, though no one except a few SEC and Curb officials were supposed to know about...
...existence of a General Staff but the German Navy announced no less frankly that the two new pocket battleships now under construction will not be "pocket" (10,000 tons or under) at all, as provided by the Versailles Treaty, but thoroughgoing capital ships of 26,000 tons each. Also forbidden to have submarines, Germany has already launched a dozen of 250 tons each, has sent them out with its Baltic Fleet...
...immediate objection: they thought that with the current low estate of rails they would have a pauper's hard time selling a 4% Central bond, conversion feature or no. Moreover, by selling the bonds as Mr. Jones suggested, they hinted that he was tricking them into "an underwriting . . . forbidden by [New Deal] law." And, listing all the other objections they could think of, together with a counterproposal (put both bank and RFC loans on a six-month-notice basis), Messrs. Reynolds & Whitney wrote Mr. Vanderbilt, who forwarded the letter to Mr. Jones with a covering note. Mr. Vanderbilt began...
Yellow tags, tied indiscriminately to the steering wheels of all vehicles which come to rest for more than a few minutes in this forbidden territory, are the cause of this outburtst. They bear the legend "This car is parked in violation of the Harvard University Parking Regulations. If not removed from University property by---- the University will, if it sees fit, have this car towed to a garage and stored at the owner's expense and risk." A terse message, written in pencil on the reverse side of the tag, reads: "See Mr. Apted, Lehman Hall...
...policy, its moral hypocrisy shows itself equally as clear. Half the purpose of the neutrality legislation was to keep this country totally aloof and detached from the belligerent nations. Such a moral condemnation of war and all it stands for can never be accomplished until all intercourse whatsoever is forbidden...