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...Mining which in January, 1932, uncovered a rich new field. When the U. S. started buying gold last year. 58 new mining brokers registered at "Manila in a single month and 30 new companies were incorporated. The Director of Commerce and Industry hastened to dam up a flood of worthless wildcat securities by revamping the blue sky laws...
...more heady modern poetry, and that is the pity of it. Really brilliant puns are hidden in a mess of verbiage, without meaning to the unitiated. There are few who are prepared to undergo the rites of initiation, since there is the suspicion that the final mystery is worthless altogether and so the influence of these satirists as correctors of modern foibles is negligible...
...praiser of times past, McConaughy thinks U. S. reverence for the Founding Fathers much out of place, dubs them the "Funding Fathers." When Congress decided, during Alexander Hamilton's treasuryship, to redeem at par value the nearly worthless certificates with which the Revolutionary Army had been paid, fortunes were made by many a businessman and politician who got to backwoods scrip-owners before the news did. Twenty-nine of the 64 members of the House of Representatives got a share of the pickings. Few great names (Washington's is an exception) escape McConaughy's scorn. Few schoolboys...
...dying on account of you, because I assure you that you will never, never find anyone that cared for you as I did. . . . I have a perfect radio voice. Also I have an offer to pose for hosiery and lingerie, so you see I am not such a worthless creature. Everyone says I am a fool for loving a little insignificant elevator boy, but it just happens that you are a god of my universe...
...Grand Chaco is in itself a completely worthless piece of territory, comprising jungles and waste land for the most part. Unfortunately for Paraguay it borders on the Paraguay River. Hence, if Bolivia could gain control of it she would have a much coveted outlet to the sea, the lack of which has been keenly felt by that country since Chile closed the Pacific to her. Paraguay naturally is none too eager to see such an extension of Bolivian power in her back yard. The result is the present interminable struggle, in which Paraguay has so far been victorious, having almost...