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This represented a profound change in mood on Mr. Borah's part. Last year the great individualist opposed the cotton and tobacco control bills. But last year he made a mistake by being asleep at the political switch when AAA put a "compensatory" tax on jute sacking in which Idaho farmers bag their potatoes. This year he wishes to avoid mistakes, for next year he faces an election. Next year Mr. Brewster also faces an election and his constituency includes Aroostook County where, because of potato prices, the current relief bill is $100,000 a month and going...
...first time in four years may in time permit the U. S. to regain a $150,000,000 Cuban export market, now almost vanished. Better prices for shellac and pepper, favorites of boisterous Speculator Bernard E. ("Sell 'Em Ben") Smith, better prices for jute, hemp, antimony, caraway seed, balm of Gilead and scores of other minor world commodities will eventually result in a rising volume of international trade...
...Exchanges. All four had been sponsored by the same group of commodity traders? Francis Robinson Henderson, who made and lost fortunes in rubber; Lawyer Julius B. Baer; Jerome Chester Cuppia, partner in E. A. Pierce & Co.; and Jerome Lewine, partner in H. Hentz & Co. A fifth venture, the Burlap & Jute Exchange, was a failure. One year ago the Commodity Exchange moved to its present quarters in the International Telephone & Telegraph Building, a few doors west of Hanover Square. On its first anniversary, the Exchange had handled almost a billion and a quarter dollars worth of sales.* Seats originally valued...
Great Britain-India. Quids: Increased preferences on carpets, rugs, hides, jute, sandalwood oil and cotton...
...thought they might be, went to Manhattan to play each other for the world championship. Soussa was the first of the three to lose. With 395 points (only five more to go) he missed a spread masse and then watched his opponent, Albert Corty, a Marseilles manufacturer of jute bags, nurse the gleaming balls across the lines for a run of 50 and the match.* When Van Belle and Poensgen played their match, in the red-plush and gilt-scroll lodgeroom of the Elks' Club, they were the only undefeated players left in the tournament. Van Belle was nervous...