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...rules for registration had been issued only the day before and those who filed did so merely on the general terms of the law.* Each registration, filed in triplicate with exhibits, was a fair sized volume in itself. By comparison an income tax return was a venture in first grade arithmetic. The staff of the Trade Commission's new Bureau of Securities was faced with a mountain of work. Nonetheless they set to, eagerly seeking errors in the applications, promptly found some unaccompanied by checks or by checks uncertified...
...about time that some men stopped classifying us as high-grade morons only interested in the recipes on the woman's page of our local newspapers...
...enter a new competition for liquidity by calling loans, selling securities, churning up fresh deflation. More serious, there are undoubtedly many small State banks which cannot pass the necessary examination no matter how hard they try to liquidate their assets. When the public learns that they cannot make the grade, runs may start, another crop of bank failures may develop...
...gave ground on his pension cuts (see p. 13). To avoid a long Senate wrangle, he dropped his plan to ask Congress for authority to make special tariff treaties at the London Conference. To put down resentful little rebellions in his own party, he released a flood of Grade B patronage. At his command the Senate sat for twelve-hour stretches. Oldsters could recall nothing to match the Roosevelt drive for adjournment. But at the last moment the President made a tactical error which cost him his whole week's work. Submitted to Congress at 8 o'clock...
...great a cost per mile that financial wags of the period said that its rails were nickel plated. In 1916, the Nickel Plate (with 523 mi. of track connecting Buffalo with Chicago) was not in the forefront of railroads. It was a second-grade property, far from profitable. The New York Central was glad to sell its majority interest...