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...genuine Kentucky colonelcy, Col. Bradley shows a wary reticence when talking to reporters. He has one superstition: all his horses have names begining with "B." Burgoo King was named for Jim Mooney, a Lexington grocer whose "burgoo"-a savory meat stew cooked for two days and sometimes seasoned with corn whiskey-is reputed Kentucky's best...
...cold-blooded man in Wall Street"). Arthur William Cutten, once Chicago's best known bull. Marquis de San Miguel. Herbert L. Dillon of Eastman, Dillon &; Co. Stnyvesant Fish. Bertha, Joseph and Paolino Gerli (silk). Thomas Montgomery Howell, Chicago grain operator, who last summer cornered 70%, of the visible corn supply, squeezed shorts, said: "I go along, ask no quarter, don't give any." Coleman F. Madden, known on race tracks as "Handsome Coley," who recently told friends he "preferred Wall Street to the horses." B. C. Neidecker, War aviator, managing director of the Travelers Bank of Paris (also...
...long ago the Vagabond bought a new pipe. Nothing unusual about the incident, nothing unusual about the purchase, nothing unusual at all. Merely a brown, prosaic, upcountry corn cob that farmers smoke in the spring plowing. But it brought back to mind a far off day when the Vagabond had acquired quite another pipe, under quite another circumstance...
...nation's banks into Industry. In February, with the Glass-Steagall bill, it went to the rescue of the banks themselves by giving them a bigger & better pipe line into the Federal Reserve System. It was now proposed to pump Federal Reserve credit into the commodity markets? wheat, corn, beef, cotton, coffee, sugar. The bill was introduced by Representative Thomas Alan Goldsborough, Maryland Democrat. It required the Federal Reserve "to take all available steps to raise the present deflated wholesale level of commodity prices as speedily as possible to the level existing before the present deflation, and afterward...
After that Collector Van Vechten decided that Iowa's folk songs were the song of Iowa's birds, the rustling of her corn...