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...Reporters last week were startled to see crateloads of dental soap carried into the Chamber of Deputies building in Paris, learned that preservers (not restorers) insisted on using dental soap to cleanse the murky murals of Eugene Delacroix, because it was acidless, would not affect pigments...
...stockmarketeer may rightly be called a tycoon only when his operations directly and continuously affect the affairs of a great corporation. This rarely occurs. Bishop Cannon's operations are in no sense tycoonish...
...played more than a small part, a fact admitted by President Richard I. Whitney when he spoke last week to the Illinois Chamber of Commerce, defended true short selling, said: "It is impossible for any individual or group of individuals to buy or sell securities in sufficient volume to affect the whole list." Brokers saw that the Exchange's attitude was against the bear who uses unethical means (such as rumormongering) to depress prices, was perhaps essentially a move to forestall investigation by Congress. Agitation of this sort was commencing last week. Congressman William I. Sirovich of New York notified...
President Hoover's advice to bankers: "This depression will be shortened largely to the degree that you feel you can instill into your clients . . . a feeling of assurance. . . . The very atmosphere of your offices will affect the mental attitude and . . . courage of the individuals who depend upon you for counsel and money...
...played with intense and commendable sincerity. Playwright Lynn Riggs has written the saga of a Texas superman who wears a 10-gal. hat, bursts out of gaols, woos and wins Miss Ruthelma Stevens (the comely somnambulist of Hotel Universe). Unfortunately, the speeches and posturings which the cast must affect are not of the sort which result in success in the theatre. Roadside must be recorded as one of the few missteps of Producer Arthur Hopkins...