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Regarding domestic matters, the bond market spoke its disbelief in the likelihood of inflation or devaluation of the dollar, its confidence in low money rates. High-grade issues forged ahead even when the inflationists were speaking their loudest in Washington (see p. 12). Many good 5% issues sold above par and second-grade bonds jumped more rapidly than stocks. Transactions were on a large scale and many recent sessions resulted in over 100 new highs. Early this week all bonds, including Governments, were faltering a little. Altogether bonds on the Stock Exchange gained $1,500,000,000 in value since...
There appears at present to be no likelihood that the College Library will be open evenings during the reading and examination periods. When questioned last night, R. P. Blake, professor of History and director of the Library, denied emphatically that there had been any reconsideration of the original decision to close the building during the evenings...
...about 1,700,000 protest votes are to be cast for Socialist Norman Thomas. Undoubtedly many an alleged Forgotten Man will, like Henry Ford, have failed to register or is otherwise ineligible to vote. It is also true that the forces against a Change are usually quietest when the likelihood of Change is most imminent. As of last week the election of 1932 looked like a narrower thing than it seemed last month, with the outcome locked in the breast of that unknown if not forgotten character, the Common Citizen...
...Calverton's thesis is, as he claims that American literature has at last broken away from a slavish imitation for English models, he is in all likelihood right. If on the other hand it is what it actually seems, that the American writer has been liberated from the prejudices and snobberies of middle-class society, his proofs are sadly convincing...
...Fascist group mentioned above will succeed, as it seems likely to do, in establishing a military government, under the semblance of a "national" council, cannot be determined now. If it does, the tense feelings which predominate in the diplomatic relations of this country and Japan will in all likelihood be increased. Another threat to our economic and political interests in the Pacific will be more difficult to meet by peaceful means than was the last...