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...roughly curried by Leslie Gould, financial editor of Hearst's New York Journal-American, an old SEC baiter. Why, asked Gould, had it taken SEC so long to find out that Globe stock was worthless? "This Globe case," said he, "happens to be about the sorriest of the many issues floated last year-issues that should never have been offered to the public-even as speculations. . . . The underwriters of this stock were the Stock Exchange firm of New-burger & Hano of Philadelphia and Gearhart & Co. of New York. . . . What are the Stock Exchange and the National Association of Security...
...Tough. The most important-and perhaps the sorriest case-was the loan to Britain. The Senate's grudging approval (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) had sharpened British fears that in the pinch of revived competition in future years Congress would go back to high tariffs and trade warfare. Said London's Economist: "If the Senate has proved anything quite decisively, it is that Congress cannot be relied upon to pursue with any consistency the policy of moderation and liberality without which the whole structure of the loan, Bretton Woods and nondiscriminatory trade policy is built on sand...
...hands of Jim Corbett. After that came his long, pitiful period as an alcoholic has-been and his ultimate salvation - with the Boston lady's warm approval - as a temperance lecturer at Chautauquas. The picture shows an uncommonly dogged desire to be honest about its hero's sorriest phase; it stages some very energetic socking matches; it ripples, like wheat under a wind machine, with brogue and assorted Irish sentiments; and it isn't a very good show...
...soldiers winced, like the folks at home, when they heard that U.S. service troops in France had been systematically stealing and selling cigarets, gasoline, food and arms needed by their fighting comrades at the front. Last week the Army (and court martial witnesses) told more about one of the sorriest scandals in recent military history...
...sorriest stories yet told about the U.S. Government's muddled attempts to provide cheap housing for war workers turned up last week...