Word: looke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Passed a resolution by Senator Smith (South Carolina) for an inquiry by the Committee on Agriculture into operations and relations among cotton exchanges, cotton spinners and the U. S. Department of Agriculture, to look for market manipulation and "fixing" of cotton-price predictions...
...Irish wit was as irrepressible as her opinions. In war-time she remarked, "Seeing all these soldiers about here makes me feel that I should like to be a war bride myself; but of course, at my age, I couldn't look at anything short of a major general...
...semi-finalist at Minnekadha last summer. "In colleges golf is like a thermometer. At times you have good teams, and then a series of poor ones. It seems as though it has been rather cold at Harvard since Jones left. With several fine Freshman players coming along though, things look better...
Distance does not lend enchantment to bonds, for Canadian and Newfoundland issues of comparable intrinsic merit sell higher. U. S. bankers, it is true, have come to look upon their northern neighbors as a part of the financial fatherland, whereas Australia, with her vulnerable position in case of a great Pacific conflict, and her slightly rosy tint of political radicalism, is distinctly foreign. As a matter of history, Australia first came to Wall Street because London fell out with the legislators of Queensland* over a certain Land Amendment Act which taxed British pastoral investments despite agreements previously consummated which exempted...
Many a U. S. town too small to belong to the Kiwanis International is large enough to have its own luncheon club of town merchants. Many such clubs look with alarm at the entrance of the first Atlantic & Pacific Tea store, the first Woolworth or the first Liggett. Alarm among luncheon club members increased last week when they learned that there was another invasion to fear. Montgomery Ward & Co., Chicago, announced that within a year a chain of 150 retail stores would be in operation under their name...