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...middle of 1861 the Treasury was having difficulty in selling Government securities. Cooke blandly sent a letter to Secretary of the Treasury Salmon Portland Chase, suggesting that he be made special agent to handle them, although he had only a small organization. With healthy caution, Cooke did not write letters directly to Washington officials. He sent them to his brother, who personally read them to the official concerned. For a number of reasons-including the failure of banks to handle the loans, bad set-backs to the Northern cause, the danger of war with England, as well as Cooke...
...Police last week found on a bridge over Salmon Falls River, where motorists cross from New Hampshire into Maine, a sign which read...
...body in the U. S. Staging its annual meeting in Blackpool on the sandy shores of industrial Lancashire last week, BAAS had the usual number of sheltered sectional conferences on such subjects as Representation by squares and quadratic integers in a real quadratic corpus and The ecology of young salmon. But. aside from the astronomical lucubrations of Sir James Jeans and one or two other luminaries, the speeches that made most news were on questions of assimilating scientific progress into the quivering corpus of society...
...great banquet in the railroad station ($7.50 a plate for cantaloupe. Philadelphia pepper pot, fresh salmon. Virginia lamb, ice cream and California wine) was marred by the conspicuous presence of two rows of unoccupied tables. It was enlivened by Secretary Ickes' speech declaring that reducing electric rates was a high duty of government, by Floyd Carlisle's point that utilities, unlike railroads, banks, farmers and many others, had not had to call on the Government for financial aid in Depression...
...upside down. Beginning with a discussion of rivers, plains, mountain ranges, rainfall, Stuart Chase proceeds to long, eloquent, angry lament on the squandering of native riches. Like the Whitman of a bankrupt country, he composes a great catalog of lost national wealth, including the buffalo, the passenger pigeon, eastern salmon, Pacific halibut, petroleum, timber, coal, the great auk, the Carolina parakeet, the drought-impoverished Dust Bowl. It is a disturbing account, calculated to make any responsible citizen treasure every green tree and each clear brook of his native land. The oyster catch declined from 25 million bushels...