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...stopped walking at late twilight and went into the church. There were no lights on; no people were there to pray; the organ loft was empty. The tramp sat down and put his dirty finger on the keys, and there was music...
...National Student Federation are encouraging. This organization adopted as its chief aims at the time of its inception several years ago the fostering of a more thoughtful attitude among college students on college and national problems and the promotion of international good will, both tasks of a sufficiently loft and difficult nature. To the somewhat cynical observer, well acquainted with students and student inclinations, the chance of concrete achievement in either of these directions has seemed slight. The moulding of student thought and the furtherance of good feeling between nations through the medium of student opinion are endeavors...
Perhaps Master Vaupell did not sweep conscientiously, because subsequent records show the New York Stock Exchange wandering the Wall St. district, occupying now a tavern hall, another time a hay loft or a rented room, until 1842 when they hired a large hall on the present site of the National City Bank. About this time, the first great expansion in security values started with the de-velopment of the railroads. Strange stories were told of men who had bought stock in one of those steam engines and, without shoveling a coal, or nailing a tie, or laying a rail...
George W. ("Penny-a-Pound Profit") Loft, candy maker, horse-racer, onetime member of the House of Representatives, last week became a banker by a fluke...
Three months ago he bought the building at Seventh Avenue and 33rd Street, Manhattan, in which the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers Co-operative Trust Co. occupied ground floor space. They vacated, leaving to Mr. Loft fine banking fixtures worth $150,000. When salvaging junkmen offered him only $25,000 for all the equipment, he decided that for such an amount he might well play as a neighborhood banker himself. His bank, created last week, has capital of $750,000, surplus of $250,000; is named Emerald National Bank & Trust...