Word: streets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...representatives with the Vatican. Brazil runs neck-&-neck with Italy as the world's largest Catholic State, although its 40,000,000 Catholics are shepherded by only 6,000 priests.* Bishop Ryan and Father Sheehy, looking businesslike to South American churchmen, who still wear their soutanes in the street, visited papal nuncios and hierarchs, talked with them in Italian and French, found everywhere that Latin American prelates look to the U. S. hierarchy for social and cultural leadership-a leadership which has been slow in materializing...
...Recorded are his jazz fugue, Bach Goes Town (Victor), and an album of satires (Gramophone Shop, Inc., 18 East 45th Street, Manhattan...
...Cincinnati's subway is ever to be used, it must build a loop through the Basin from its present downtown terminus. This would cost another $6,000,000, and the whole project would be handed to the Cincinnati Street Railway Co. for operation of its cars. The transaction would be without rent, which the company is nable to pay. Face to face with this apparently insoluble situation, a group of leading Cincinnatians resolved last week that something must be done about the city's hole-in-the-ground. Last week they met at the Sinton Hotel, organized...
Oldest, commonest indicator of the state of U. S. business is the price of stocks on the New York Stock Exchange. But while that curve produced at No. 11 Wall Street is almost always eventually right as to trend, at any given moment it is frequently apt to be wrong as a "state of-business" indicator. For stock prices have always had a high emotional content, are given to excesses of excitement or complacency...
...Harrison Williams emerged from an Ohio bicycle factory to try his hand in Wall Street. In 1906 he helped splice a group of Midwest and Southern utilities into American Gas & Electric Co., six years later created another holding company, Central States Electric Corp. Central States presently got working control of North American Co., itself a utility holding company, whose total assets today are $900,000,000. By 1924 Mr. Williams held 96% of Central States' stock. By 1929 its shares had been split 60-for-1, the value of a single original share had risen from...