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Sparse has been the comment upon individual losses in the Stockmarket crash fortnight ago. Few people have had the temerity to expose the amount of their trading losses, fearful of jeopardizing their credit standing. Gleeful, therefore, were newsgatherers last week to find one person who admitted her losses, flaunted the amount, even named the stocks she had had. She, a Miss Margaret Shotwell. 19, of Omaha, said that she had lost more than $1,000,000 in Montgomery Ward, Paramount, Cities Service, General Motors...
...minded paltering with matters so vital to humanity as a whole, but it is still too early to make specific charges. In a social system which depends so entirely upon the integrity of big corporations, even the most radical can derive but a sad sort of pleasure in a gleeful "I told you so" when big business is cast under a black shadow. As yet the shadow has not settled definitely over more than a single individual; the Senate's findings are still far from complete and fairness as well as a decent confidence in American institutions demands a complete...
...That Republican Senator William Edgar Borah of Idaho should oppose the flexible provisions of the proposed Tariff Bill occasioned no great surprise in Washington. That he should express his opposition by a formal statement from Democratic National Committee headquarters, as he did last week, was surprising indeed. With a gleeful rattle a Democratic mimeograph ground out this Borah opinion: "There is no better illustration of the growth of bureaucracy than the story of the flexible tariff. . . . We are now delegating the full taxing power to the Executive...
...minutes the face of M. Chiappe threatened to upset the government of France. Prime Minister Poincaré and Minister Tardieu pleaded anxiously with Deputy Dormann, pointed to the gleeful faces of the Opposition, told M. Dormann that he was being used as a parliamentary tool to overturn the government by creatures afraid to attack the government directly on the score of debt ratification. Deputy Dormann hesitated, cooled off, let the "crisis" pass...
...Prague automobiles chugged leisurely through the streets. Raging policemen vainly tried to speed them up. Prague chauffeurs stoutly refused to break the law. Travelers missed their trains, traffic tangled in market place, stalled on bridges. The chauffeurs, enjoying themselves hugely, continued to bump slowly over the cobblestones. At nightfall gleeful Prague taxi drivers considered the old speed laws as good as repealed...