Word: protractedness
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THE FIRST BILLION : The Stillmans and the National City Bank-John K. Winkler-Vanguard ($2.50). Once upon a time bankers were considered the pillars of Church & State. Even 25 years ago such a word as "bankster" would have been blasphemous. But not now. For these onetime gods of the U...
To wait for the dollar to reach fifty cents by further purchases of gold in the open market is said to involve protracted delay. The over-spending policy may in the next two weeks cause a drop in the dollar's value, but the first reaction to the $7,000...
THE DEATH OF A WORLD-Remain Rol-land-Holt ($3.50). "The master ringers are Business and Money: politics have had their day. Economics reigns. And it certainly cannot be said that wisdom chokes them! For they have not always a human countenance. They are often octopuses, formless anonymous monsters, whose...
The Count's memoirs were full of amorous reminiscence, some of them so explicit that his editor had to censor them; but she has left a flowery residue. At first no one girl was enough for the "Don Juan of Our Days." "The most ones of our officers had...
Under the auspices of the national Association of Unemployed College Alumni there has been formed a branch organization of Unemployed Harvard Graduates, which, presumably, subscribes to the program of the Association, and which makes a few moderate requests of the college administration. These are men educated and mentally fitted for...