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Died. William Archer. 68, famed British dramatic critic; in London. He edited, expounded, translated the plays of Henrik Ibsen; himself wrote The Green Goddess, suave hair-raiser played by George Arliss...
...cities and private companies may seek U. S. capital by offering their stocks and bonds to our investors via Wall Street. Naturally investors will hesitate to invest in such securities until the stability of national government loans seems assured. A German loan is in consequence somewhat of a "curtain-raiser" to a period of numerous and extensive foreign loans...
...curtain raiser to the drama of the giants, Dr. Thomas Sewall Adams, Professor of Political Economy at Yale University, resigned from government work. The eminent economist had been employed as special adviser to the committee investigating the Internal Revenue Bureau. Writing to Senator "Jim" Watson, he said: "To probe for the sake of probing impresses me-if I may say so without offense-as a particularly demoralizing form of child's play...
...born in Victoria, Tex., in 1864 and claimed to be of Cuban parentage, on account of which he used the Spanish form of his name. He was first a cowboy, then an inspector of customs, cattle trader, cotton raiser. From the cotton and wool business he branched into a scheme for colonizing Mexico with southern Negroes. The colony failed, but he went on; he entered the brokerage business, and went to New York. There he became head of a $10,000,000 water company which served various towns now incorporated in New York City and known as the Bronx. After...
Addresses, including a curtain-raiser by Charles E. Mitchell, President of the National City Bank of New York, and the Association President's annual address by J. H. Puelicher of Milwaukee, dealt largely with domestic economic problems-in contrast to last year's international speculations at the conference in Manhattan. Chief discussion topics: the Mid-West farmer revolt; sporadic distrust of bankers in general and the Street in particular; the attacks on the Federal Reserve system; the New York bucket shop exposeé: the return of competition to world markets...