Word: ratings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bolster the Federal Reserve Board's campaign against stock speculation loans. Or, perhaps a third time, there was a connection between the statement and the condition of U. S. Government bonds. The Treasury's quarterly financing of March 15 had been barely oversubscribed despite an interest rate of 4¾%. A $475,000,000-issue had brought subscriptions of only $523,000,000. And just before Mr. Mellon's bond-boosting statement, three issues of U. S. bonds had touched their all-time...
Memphis. Tenn., as usual, had the lead in rate-60.5 homicides per 100,000 population...
Chicago, as usual, had the lead in numbers-498. But Chicago's rate per 100,000 was only 15.8, letting it out of first place among the six largest U. S. cities. Big Detroit committed 16.5 murders for each 100,000 of its population. Across the river, Windsor, Ont, had an estimated rate of only 9. Bloodthirsty Negroes were what boosted Detroit's figures...
Mellon. The Federal Reserve Board made no reply to Mr. Warburg. Neither did it increase its rediscount rate. During the entire Federal Reserve-Wall Street controversy there has been a strong undercurrent of rumor concerning dissension among Reserve Board Members. It has been claimed that Andrew Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury, has been opposed to any rise in the rediscount rate, that his influence has kept the Board from taking drastic measures. Neither personal nor political reasons are lacking to make such an attitude logical for Mr. Mellon. Not only is the Bull Market an evidence of Republican Prosperity...
...ideal that seems to be just as securely hidden. The modern youth movement since the war has been attempting to turn the world upside down to find its princess of liberty, and there is every indication that she too is hiding in that ancient stone tower. At any rate, the governments of Europe especially are tiring of this excitement, so the Communistic party in Russia has decided to purge itself of the young moderns and take up her interrupted liaison with the more substantial Madame Prosperity. Spain is more abrupt, and has threatened to imprison all students who attack...