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Newspapers, whose publicity had made a "big shot" out of a sly little hoodlum, could find little that was kind or colorful to write into Diamond's obituary and had to content themselves with smart references to him as the underworld's "clay pigeon." and "ammunition dump." Six months ago the New Yorker counted up his eleven wounds, christened him "Big Shot-at," predicted his early demise...
...small, have been sold some $15,000,000,000 in foreign securities which have depreciated in value to about $12,000,000,000. Senator Johnson wanted know: Who issued these foreign securities in the U. S.? What was their cor mission? Did they retain any for ther selves or dump them all on the public? What political dickering was behind each issue? How much did worthless foreign bonds have to do with bank failures? The Senate Finance Committee prepared answer these questions by summoning ranking officers of the following big banking houses: J. P. Morgan & Co.; Kuh Loeb & Co.; National...
...with and surpass the U. S." as Stalin once put it) to concentrate at once on light industries. These would make shoes, clothing, farm implements, sewing machines and simple necessities like needles for which Soviet peasants clamor. From light industries would also come readily salable articles which Russia could "dump" abroad, thus further redressing her trade balance, bolstering her credit...
...almost mysterious figure. His hatred of publicity has never drawn him into the limelight. A Maine boy, a Harvardman, he winters in Boston and Manhattan, summers at artistic MacDowell Colony, Peterboro, N. H., does much of his writing there. Poverty once drove him to take a job as dump cart inspector on a subway construction. When Theodore Roosevelt was President he read and liked Robinson's poetry, offered him a consulship in Mexico which Robinson refused. Tall, thin, baldish, spectacled, with a mustache partly concealing his hypersensitive mouth, Poet Robinson never talks about his own poetry, never criticizes other...
...Wales, under the noses of Argentines and Russians with mountains of wheat for sale or barter, secrecy was kept, the two partners and their friends communicating in code. At the last moment came a scare: the Russians, having traded wheat for Italian fruit, had the same idea. They would dump the coffee they received into the U. S. market instead of marketing it in an orderly way. U. S. coffee men who had been taken into the secret were worried, but the new Brazilian Government-wealthy conservatives led in this matter by Minister of Finance Jose Maria Whitacker-were true...