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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...less susceptible to foreign liquidation. Also since 1914 the Government has acquired, in the Federal Reserve and SEC, a degree of financial control far firmer than even the elder J. P. Morgan could mobilize. Thus last week, as official Washington unofficially talked of war within a few days (see p. 15), and as the emotionally exhausted stockmarket fluttered weakly in an attempt to keep up with hourly news from Europe, Government officials busied themselves with plans fof putting the Exchange on a war basis...
...chain of circumstances that discredited Russell Sage, angered Arthur Flatto and many another Western Union stockholder, is similar to that with which railroads are familiar: revenues down and costs up, largely for reasons beyond the management's control (see below). But Arthur Flatto believed that the management had "failed to function properly in producing profits," three months ago started rounding up proxies to oppose the management slate. No mere corporate troublemaker, he spent $4,450 out of his own pocket convincing other dissatisfied shareholders that they were entitled to minority representation "just like the Supreme Court." This proposition Messrs...
...Chile, it has made its biggest sensation outside the U. S. in Nazi Germany, which has bought 134,000 copies. Nazi highbrows, calling it irresistible, found it an attack on "plundering mercantile Yankee capitalism" and on democracy. Said Das Innere Reich, leading Nazi literary journal, "We see the fall and death of the old aristocrats, the rise of the parvenus, the uncultured, and the Negroes, hitherto wisely controlled." Her German publishers send Margaret Mitchell regular royalty statements but pay her no cash...
...warns: "Blizzards frequent in this vicinity, October to April; usually come very suddenly; seek shelter at once."). Its best accomplishment is its picture of the Oregon Trail's magnificent past-a picture communicated by rare photographs of wagon trains, railway construction camps, settlers' cabins, scalped hunters (see cut), as well as by new accounts of the pioneers who moved like a tidal wave across the plains. From Independence, Mo., to Fanny's Bottom, Ore., the Guide points out characteristic scenes of staggering pioneer enterprise, as well as scenes of casual pioneer poetry...
...contributions of tomboy Anor. Anor's family and travel observations, her Rats and Mice at Home, and the tales her Chinese nurse told her are shrewd, imaginative, lively, at least partly support Pearl Buck's statement that "I should not be surprised one day to see an actual genius declare itself in those clear eyes of hers...