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...With a "meager" $566,000,000 Treasury balance disappearing at the rate of $30,000,000 a day, Secretary Morgenthau spent 45 minutes talking with President Roosevelt at the White House. Next day, to U. S. investors the Government offered $1,000,000,000 in short term securities: $500,000,000 of 2½%. Treasury Notes maturing in 13½ months, $500,000,000 of 1½% Certificates maturing in 7½ months. It was the biggest piece of new financing ever attempted by the Treasury in time of peace, but it represented only one sixth of the new money...
Last week in the Cosden refinery at Big Spring, George N. Moorse, receiver, faced a meager crowd of 200 to auction off Cosden Oil Co. By court order he was forbidden to take less than $500,000-for a company that had been valued at $40,000,000 in 1929. Joshua Cosden was in the crowd, his attorney and personal friends around him. He had little more to lose if the company passed into other hands though some of his friends would be wiped out. The auctioneer asked for bids. There was silence. Then Josh Cosden said, quietly...
Last week the lid blew off. Aroused, so the police said, by relief workers' complaints at their own meager salaries, a mob of 10,000 jobless poured out of the Falls Road district and marched on the city poorhouse in an effort to force the Ulster government to increase their dole. A gang of toughs discovered a Free State truck loaded with cases of Guinness's stout from Dublin. In no time the air was thick with stout bottles. Store windows were smashed, dairies and greengrocers looted, bonfires lighted. Hand to hand fighting broke out at several places...
...Harvard Debating Council has met many difficulties in arranging intercollegiate debates. Lack of funds has made trips to other colleges practically impossible and meager audiences have discouraged intercollegiate debates when held here. The University Council is no longer an integral part of undergraduate life, a re-direction of Harvard debating will be necessary to make...
...turned out en masse for their first--and last--college football rally. The members of the team, grouped together like so many rubber plants, were seated on a stage at the end of the hall, together with several fiendishly loyal and enthusiastic old "H" men, who glowered at the meager group of undergraduates, irritated because the whole University had not put in an appearance...