Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reason for this is not difficult to see. At the start, the runner, messenger, or Junior clerk is doing work that requires no more intelligence than a bright boy just out of grammar school and his services are worth no more than the same bright boy. While he is performing these lowly tasks, however, he is getting the "feel" of the business, which is most essential. He is learning not only what investment banking is all about, but he is learning the way in which it ties into other industries; not only the difference between a stock and a bond...
...This system completely and adequately protects the Government's interest. With this picture of the procedure in mind it is difficult to see the exact point at which a public hearing could be properly injected. ... I respectfully urge that the provision for a public hearing on these matters be eliminated [from the bill]. . . . Whether the final decision of the Department should be a public document presents a somewhat different problem, though it would seem such action is open to most of the objections above enumerated...
...next notable act was to issue a statement which, had the Congress been in session, must have raised the roof of the Capitol. Said Mr. Mellon: "This is a good time for the prudent investor to buy bonds. ... It is easier to pick out sound bonds than sound stocks" (see BUSINESS...
Last October-just before the election-President Coolidge announced that he was troubled by the prospect of a deficit next June 30. He could see only the "narrowest margin between revenue and expenditures." An air of anxiety, if not gloom, was thus cast over the Treasury-in voters' minds. The conservative conclusion could only be: If a deficit threatens, let us not change horses, i.e., political party control, in midstream. The President's announcement was also used as a fiscal hackamore to make Congress stand hitched...
Every egg laid in Scotland after June 1, 1929, will be stamped with a national mark (see p. 21). Whether the mark shall read "Laid in Scotland" or "something more dignified" was weightily considered last week by His Majesty's Secretary of State for Scotland, fussy Sir John Gilmour...