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...Chamber also issued a pamphlet quoting without comment from two of Grover Cleveland's messages to Congress: "At times like the present, when the evils of unsound finance threaten us, the speculator may anticipate a harvest gathered from the misfortunes of others, the capitalist may protect himself by hoarding or may even find profit in the fluctuations of values; but the wage-earner-the first to be injured by a depreciated currency and the last to receive the benefit of its correction-is practically defenseless. He relies for work upon the ventures of confident and contented capital...
...appreciable buying of jewels-possibly due partly to fear that if the South African diamond syndicate operating under that dominion's Precious Stones Act of 1927 ever let go its artificial limitation of supply, owners of diamonds might be left high & dry. But although Americans are not hoarding precious stones, and cannot hoard the No. 1 precious metal, gold, there has been a large demand for the No. 2 precious metal, silver. Last week the price of silver on the Manhattan Commodities Exchange reached 40⅞?, the highest in three years. Of last year's world production...
Boston's brilliant functions always attract a hoard of gate-crashers, worthy and otherwise. There were no crashers at the Conant Inaugural. Yet Colonel Apted was unable to prevent one person without an invitation from slipping through the police cordons and witnessing the ceremony...
Willard Learoyd Sperry, Dean of the Divinity School and Chairman of the Hoard of Preachers to the University, will conduct the morning services at 8.45 o'clock in Appleton Chapel of the Memorial Church...
...scientist. Nevertheless they were surprised at the size and liquidity of his holdings when he died. He had some French gold, a sheaf of Bank of England notes, accounts in one British and nine U. S. banks. A bachelor, he divided most of his $10,000,000 hoard between the American Philosophical Society and the Geological Society of America. The latter body long pondered what to do with its income, was glad to help the floundering...