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Modesty. Teachers are excessively modest. "At present they fit so noiselessly into the social and political fabric that the public does not hear the sound of the spindle and the loom." (Dr. Sutton...
...candidates nominated throughout Spain last week "less than 20 are Monarchists" according to an Exchange Telegraph. Thus the new Parliament was expected to draft a Republican Constitution for Spain. But furious fights loom as to the character of the new Republic. Shall it be, as Catalonians and Basques demand, a union of federated states like the U. S. and Germany? Or shall it be, as central and southern Spaniards insist, a republic like France, highly centralized, composed not of sovereign states but of subordinate provinces...
When stocks were going up Bernard E. Smith, floor trader with an office at W. E. Hutton & Co., was a bull. Not until the decline was well under way did he loom as a powerful bear. He is of medium height, fairly heavily built and a little mysterious to all but a few men in Wall Street. He is quiet, says "smack 'em" whenever stocks are mentioned. He has been mentioned as the No. 1 Bear in Case Threshing and is reported to have bet $1,000 that by the end of 1933 Case would sell lower than...
...Atlantic & Pacific stores, some by Independent Grocers' Association. He controls the Zion Bank (capital: $50,000) whose rival is First State Bank, largely held by officials of Marshall Field & Co. who also own Zion City's big lace factory. A publishing plant and a department store also loom large in Voliva-land...
...power to revise export quotas as world prices change. This commission will also attempt to increase the consumption of sugar in countries where it is low, particularly China. Countries joining in the agreement will have to enact laws giving their governments control over ex ports. But these problems loom slight against the original problem of getting all the sugar countries to sacrifice some of their own interests for the common cause...