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...Josiah Stamp: "Mr. Hoover's offer is a good point for revival of American trade and therefore good for Britain. The results are important psychologically and will be felt immediately...
Arriving in Manhattan en route to Canada to investigate the advisability of speculating in grain futures there, Sir Josiah Stamp, famed British financial authority, said: "I think that everyone is looking to this side of the Atlantic to lead the way back to better times...
Almost invariably someone seizes the opportunity to spoil a good story. In this case it was Josiah Quincy of the class of 1821 who tried to put an end to the tale about Jackson. Quincy was at the exercises in 1833 when the Harvard degree was conferred on the President of the United States, and the former's testimony of what took place on that occasion must be accepted at its value. Quincy says in his "Figures of the Past...
More and more shocking to Londoners has become the uproarious conduct of stockholders at annual meetings. Perhaps the most shocking scene of all occurred last week. Sir Josiah Charles Stamp, revered as one of the greatest of British economists, finished reading his report to stockholders of the London Midland & Scottish Railway of which he is chairman. Hisses and groans greeted his statement that the road, largest of British single enterprises, had finished the worst year in its history...
...That's not enough to buy a ham sandwich for every shareholder," retorted Sir Josiah...