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...Treasury with the investing public, the chances of converting the immense floating debt of short time certificates into long term bonds are not bright. The Treasury made one slip last spring when it offered bonds redeemable in gold and the government repudiated this offer. This has not been forgiven, but investors have been disposed to regard it as an act of Congress rather than of an executive department and dictated by the emergency arising out of the impounding of gold during the bank holiday. A second instance of turnabout face is not so easy to defend. The withdrawal...
...Treasury with the investing public, the chances of converting the immense floating debt of short time certificates into long term bonds are not bright. The Treasury made one slip last spring when it offered bonds redeemable in gold and the government repudiated this offer. This has not been forgiven, but investors have been disposed to regard it as an act of Congress rather than of an executive department and dictated by the emergency arising out of the impounding of gold during the bank holiday. A second instance of turnabout face is not so easy to defend. The withdrawal...
...ablest businessmen on Fleet Street. He put John Bull on its feet following the downfall of its former publisher, the late, notorious Horatio Bottomley. Ambitious, he openly seeks a title, and he will get none so long as Scot MacDonald is Prime Minister. The Prime Minister has never forgiven him for publishing in John Bull a facsimile of MacDonald's birth certificate, showing him to be illegitimate...
...very attractive daughter Catherine. Carr was a success in a business way, but before he was old enough to realize his other duty he fell desperately in love with Cordelia, daughter of his father's worst enemy. In spite of unanimous opposition they married and were forgiven, but Carr lost his chance of a fortune. He prospered, however, and when old Mr. Ainsley died, Carr was managing the firm and making a pretty penny for Catherine, who had inherited a controlling interest. All might have been well with Carr and his family if Catherine's heart...
...been preparing for it since 1905. Of the 65-odd characters introduced in this first volume, few are related, many do not even meet. As each chapter carries along a little further their separate histories, parallel in time but irrelevant to each other, the reader might be forgiven for becoming confused. But Author Romains competently keeps the threads from tangling...