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...consensus of opinion that the stockmarket should give the first warning signal of coming deflation, and that the key to the stockmarket lies in the money market. But the money situation is still unique in U. S. history; its unused resources of credit are still so great that it is as important to determine what Federal Reserve officials think of things as to juggle with endless statistics. At present glance, it seems likely that the top of the bond market has been reached, and that money rates will firm slightly this fall...
...visiting speakers with a concrete proposal for speedy mobilization of the opinions of nations on issues of international import : Let every nation establish its national telephone exchange. At an emergency, let all accredited national institutes be called up by expert publicists from the nation's capital. Let the consensus of these opinions be laid before the world...
...research work on Keats and her volume of criticism on modern French poetry have already won fame for her as a scholar. The fact that she has championed the more radical tendencies in modern poetical form has denied her the same fame as a creative artist, but the consensus of opinion among literary critics of the day stamps her as America's foremost living poet...
...plethora of comment inflated the receptive pages of journals, hebdomadals and mensals to show whether or not the election of Generalfeldmarschall Paul von Hindenburg to the German Presidency meant "this," meant "that." A consensus of more reliable opinion averred that the Field Marshal's election was an omen of good import, that it meant the beginning of a rule of law and order with no immediate, though probably a later (one writer mentioned ten years) restoration of the monarchy, that it presaged a fuller return of foreign confidence and a resumption by Germany of her place in the comity...
Stephen Rathbitn - "Consensus of opinion seemed to be that the play wasn't as bad as everybody had expected...