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...deals, and last week Jones made public his promise to compete for any big issues which bankers seemed to be negotiating for on their own terms. Subsequently he will accept piecemeal bids from bankers or market the bonds direct to insurance and trust companies. In that event, probably more gilt-edged flotations would go to smaller institutions outside of New York than heretofore. In the rush of stock offerings sure to result from holding company dissolutions Jones may also help by lending investment houses money...
Blitzkrieg im Westen, which was offered by the Harvard Liberal Union to a jam-packed New Lecture Hall last night, is significant for the cleverly unpolished effect which camouflages its propaganda. It contains none of the gilt-edged-super-collossal-stupendous-gargantuan approach that Hollywood has geared the American public (and even the Harvard student) to lap up. It would have been much more comforting to the wide-eyed undergraduate if this film had been a faked plug for the Hitler machine. We could have laughed at the gum-drop exploits of some Nazi Robert Taylor. But the swift, systematic...
...huge, 15 inch silver gilt bowl, made by Thomas Bolton, is in one of the cases. Its inscription reads. "The gift of the Honourable City of Dublin to Capt. George Sanders, commander of Her Majesty's ship Seaforth, for his signal services in taking two French privateers, being the first that were brought into this harbour this war. Anno...
Perhaps the most imposing of the items on exhibit are two Irish House of Commons Maces, made of silver gilt in London, 1765. The maces were symbols of office of the Lord Chancellor, who presided in the House of Lords, and of the Speaker of the House of Commons. This parliament might have become completely autonomous, but was abolished by the Act of Union of 1800, which united the British and Irish parliaments as one legislative body in London...
...little oval room was hot. The score of frail, wobbly, gilt chairs were jammed close together on the deep scarlet carpet, to the left of the plain, dark wooden desk...