Word: reasoner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...strong if not major element of personal rivalry?"dog eat dog" ?among Mexico's many men of the sword. It is of the very first significance that, last week, neither the government nor Chief Rebel Gilberto Valenzuela laid any great stress on such appeals to principle, credulity or reason as helped to win the Great War. Any fight in Mexico is, at bottom, just dogfight, though the triumph of General Calles would mean the continuance of his Socialist Anti-Catholic policies. During the week General Calles' so-called "puppet," President Portes Gil, called at the U. S. Embassy?something...
Among Japanese who did disembowel themselves last week in the good old-fashioned way was Captain Kisaburo Koyanagi, Assistant Naval Attache of the Japanese Embassy in Moscow. Reason: "private." The following cryptic utterance arrived from Moscow the next morning: "It is needless to state a painful impression has been created in foreign diplomatic circles . . . when parties grow so rowdy that neighbors protest, the case becomes a matter of public interest...
Short, stocky, chesty Editor Long, radiating success and brisk efficiency, had reason to be pleased; and more, perhaps, than Mr. Coolidge realized. Had not the President said to persistent Editor Long: "Yes, when you pay 35 cents for a magazine, that magazine takes on in your eyes the nature of a book and you treat it accordingly."? Editor Long reproduced this incomparable "blurb" in full page newspaper advertisements...
...loud tones that stock market inflation is hurting U, S. business by making credit rates high and borrowing expensive. If the Market is on the way to running over a steep cliff into the sea, why have not the bankers endeavored to cast out its speculative devils? One reason, say cynics, is that the brokers are excellent customers...
Bonds v. Stocks. Increasingly, finance committees of "big" U. S. corporations have voted to redeem bonds, issue additional common stock. One obvious and bullish reason might be to reduce annual fixed interest charges. Another reason, less obvious and less bullish, might be a desire to take precautions against hard times ahead. Should the U. S. find itself, in 1935 or 1940, in a general business depression, corporations would be glad of flexible capital structures. No such bearish suggestions, however, accompanied these developments...