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...counter in Wall Street. By an irony of fate, many of the European countries which lent us money a generation or two ago to build our railways, are now applying to Wall Street investment banking houses for loans to improve and extend their own railroad systems. One of the basic ideas in the Experts' Plan was to extract reparation payments from the German state-owned railways. As a preliminary step to this process, however, the German roads needed working capital to place them on a money-making basis. Altogether about $15,000,000 was needed. International conferences between London...
After the election results were received and digested by the public, the stock market proceeded to go immediately on record as optimistic of the business future. The obliteration of LaFollettism removed a heavy prejudice against rail securities; at the same time, basic industries like steel and oil gave signs of expansion and higher prices...
...article Mr. du Fais reveals some plans and sketches he has made of his conception of how the University should be developed in future years. He presents a basic plan to be followed in all future physical expansion...
Father and daughter entered into conspiracy against the mother, a religious maniac with none of the other basic instincts of humanity. Father taught daughter to read, to figure, to think. He untaught her all that her mother tried to teach. Above all, he taught her to keep her own counsel, to retire into the castle of her own intelligence, safe against the shafts of her neighbors...
...this second encounter, Princeton won. In 1878, back Princeton came and met Harvard on Boston Common, Princeton again winning. The following year, 1879, Harvard again journeyed to Hoboken and again suffered defeat. During these three years the famous "fifteen" of Rugby tradition had been reduced to "eleven," and the basic line of cleavage established which in time was to produce a distinctive American game...