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...activity. Last week's was not only ebb but neap tide. Trading in bonds on the New York Stock Exchange one day was only $3,730,000, smallest since 1918. Volume of August stock trading had totaled only 17,220,000 shares, smallest for that month since 1934. Gloom hung so heavy in Wall Street that a seat on the Exchange sold for $75,000, lowest price since April 1935. On the sole million-share day last week 143 issues found new lows. On a recession not so great as that of last June, Wall Street morale touched...
...multi-motored bombers from Italy, four were French and the other was a DeHavilland Comet which got in from England just before the deadline. Weather was perfect and for once a long-distance air race was held without fatalities. But if all four French planes had crashed in flames, gloom in Paris after the race could have been no worse, for all the honors went to Italy, which took the first three places and the prize money (now $112,000). Even the lone English plane finished before Frenchman Paul Codos finally took fifth. To French aviation the race...
Wherever he goes, industrious, well-groomed William Philip Simms, Foreign Editor of the Scripps-Howard press, seems to instill a love of peace, perhaps because he is famed for prophecies of gloom and war. He interviewed Dictator Benito Mussolini month ago and that modern Caesar, instead of growling fresh warning to the world, suggested dovelike that President Roosevelt should arrange an arms limitation conference. Last week Mr. Simms reported that he had seen Premier Leon Blum in Paris. Gazing upon the trees and lawns of Matignon Palace he had heard the gospel of peace preached once more. Europe, declared...
Newspapers. Above and behind Queen Mother Mary, the young Princesses and the rest of the royal ladies, high in the Abbey's Triforium Gallery whose normal gloom was dispelled by bright new lights, seats were provided for some 300 eyewitness newshawks from all over the world. In their seats at 6:30 a. m. these writers scribbled furiously for eight hours. They dropped their copy in "takes" (installments) down a specially built chute to the Abbey's cellars. There 40 telegraphers tapped it out unceasingly. In newspaper offices all over the globe, editors and press crews stood...
Divisional are finishing, and the general exodus from Cambridge has began, somber windows reflect the gloom that is felt in the hearts of those left behind. But lest the submerged Four-Fifths become moody contemplating their own sorry lot, it should never be said that May 14 did not bring the gladdest tidings of all the Spring season...