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...compare a prosperous bond-salesman of the American species with an Arunta tribesman is in the sociological sense by no means derogatory. Totems are as fundamental as anything in the curious network of superstitions, contracts, and shibboleths which arise from the social intermingling of individuals. The totem in both cases rests on a fairly common basis, a kindred, actual or supposed, and its manifestations its parades and its war cries, are equally noble or ridiculous...
...investigations will have been in vain. And a program of legal research may well appeal to the bar, if for no other reason, because through research we may most assuredly preserve the common law as the law of our several states and the conspicuous bond of union among English-speaking peoples...
...formerly Republican National Committeeman from Connecticut, sank overcome by six days' illness with pneumonia and died. His death closed a strange career. In youth he studied Latin and philosophy to become a priest, but instead became a $7-a-week bookkeeper for an undertaker. He became a bond salesman and learned the art of lobbying in the Connecticut legislature, getting his bonds made nontaxable. He became a power in Connecticut politics, a great friend of Boss (Senator) Boies Penrose of Pennsylvania, and had been chosen by Theodore Roosevelt as his political manager for the campaign of 1920. After Roosevelt...
...southern Indiana furnishes three-fourths. Here 24 companies, owning 1,652 acres of quarry lands with a probable production over the next 70 years, have just merged themselves into the $45,000,000 Indiana Limestone Co. Last week the new corporation mortgaged its property for a $15,000,000 bond issue...
...Call money dropped to 3% (the lowest since March 20, 1925) on the Stock Exchange and to 2½% outside. Such easy money was one cause for the rise of stock prices. Another cause must have been the plentiful money available from the conservatism so noticeable in industrial enterprises. Bond prices have been mounting gradually since the recent stock break. One day last week $20,826,000 in domestic bonds were sold, a record, the previous being $17,432,000 on June...