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...70th Congress had appropriated for the last fiscal year, but argued that the in- creases were all for worthy causes. Major increases over 1930: Farm relief, $101,900,000; rivers & harbors, $21,600,000; public buildings, $20,000,000; Boulder Dam, $10,660,000; public roads, $37,400,-ooo. Declared Congressman Wood: "The Republican Party [is] anxious and proud to place before the American people the constructive, honest and efficient fiscal record it has made. . . . This record and the traditional capacity of the Republican Party to provide efficient and sane management of the affairs of Government should commend themselves...
...could make any sense of performances on the stock exchange, where the almost incredible number of 16,338,000 shares of U. S. Industry & Commerce were dumped as if they were so much junk. The day's transactions, including odd lots and other exchanges, undoubtedly exceeded 30,000.-ooo shares. Necessity, perhaps, but not Reason ruled...
...great profit-earner. On his part, he could use some millions to pay for papers which he had recently acquired and for others which he proposes to buy. The group called their parleys a deal, and last weeK the E. W. Scripps Co. issued $8,500,-ooo gold debenture bonds through the three banking houses...
Here lies Ooo-Rah, misbegotten child of Wild and Foolish Frenzy, conceived in playfulness, nourished in jest, and brought forth still-born before an expectant world. Bred to thunder forth the fame of wounded heroes stricken on the field of glory, poor Ooo-Rah never wheezed a note. No single "Ooo" nor yet a "Rah" did Ooo-Rah bellow out in signal of a lusty birth. One long protracted hush proclaimed before an anxious multitude that Ooo-Rah's birth was also Ooo-Rah's death. So let him lie and rest in everlasting peace. And may this simple tribute...