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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...increase in loans was mostly from corporations, not from banks, and as long as corporations can lend out their surpluses at up to 12% call money rates, the banks generally maintain that there is no way of keeping money out of Wall St. Mr. Warburg's statement did not much annoy the speculators, who were inclined to take it as an admission that they controlled the situation, however deplorable such control might be from Mr. Warburg's standpoint...
Disappointed in motor cars, Mr. Buick determinedly tried his luck in other fields, and always with unfortunate results. He went to California and organized an oil company. To finance the oil company he sold much of his automobile stock. Then title litigation wrecked the oil company? expensive litigation that consumed the remainder of the stock. With what he saved from the oil disaster. Mr. Buick went into real estate. He became partner in a company that controlled many acres. Unfortunately, they were Florida acres, and when the Florida boom collapsed the last of Mr. Buick's fortune went with...
...books, with a Final Appeal. Addressing a meeting of British authors in London, he said: "If we all work together we may be able to do something to relieve our country of the stigma which is undoubtedly on it at the present time because of the outpouring of so much filthy literature. Gentlemen and ladies,† I appeal to our better selves! Let us cooperate to stop the flood of indecency which is being launched upon the world." Upon Alfred Emanuel Smith was conferred last Sunday the University of Notre Dame's Laetare medal, highest U. S. distinction available...
...naturalist, exposed the flight methods of eagles, kites, pelicans and buzzards. The tenor of the whole magazine was calculated to encourage more people to buy more planes, to make the grass grow green upon the lawns of aviation country clubs. In the West, where amateur flying is already pretty much a matter of course, The Sportsman Pilot may seem precious. In the East it should help the air to become fashionable and populous...
...Yves Mirande, was innocuous enough and the music, by Raoul Moretti, was light and gay and altogether pleasant. In addition, the chief comedian, M. Servatius, turned out to be an exceedingly droll fellow. Not the least of the visitors' charms was their unpretentiousness. The French do not spend much on their musical comedies. It is a relief to sit through an evening without being asked to watch armies of chorus ladies parade past in what the best dressed woman will not wear. After a week of Trois Jeunes Filles, Producer Gauvin, versatile, shifted his company to Ta Bouche...