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...Hoover as he spoke these words last week in the auditorium of the new Department of Commerce building sat some 300 of the country's foremost bankers, industrialists and businessmen. Most of them were members of the regional committees set up in the twelve Federal Reserve districts to help pump new bank credit into deflated business. Others were important guests who had also been summoned to Washington to participate in one of the most impressive economic conferences ever held in the capital...
...year. To the Broad Street office of Richard Whitney, President of the New York Stock Exchange, went bald, spindly Author Chester Werntz ("Chet") Shafer, Grand Diapason of the Guild of Former Pipe Organ Pumpers, nonsensical organization of men who, as youngsters, used to pump wind for church organs. Grand Diapason Shafer wanted to consult Pumper Whitney about two shares of Burma Corp. Ltd. ("Burma Lead") which he had bought at $5.50 for the Guild on a "hot tip" in 1929. Last autumn when the Guild's exchequer was lower than usual and the stock was quoted...
Millions and millions of loudspeakers flood the U. S. with a mighty, surging bath of warm, sweet music. At the pump is Radio; the wellspring is Tin Pan Alley. Without the well, the pump is not much good. Both realize it but they do not love each other. Last week pump and well- the National Association of Broadcasters and the American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers-came to grips...
From Montreal last week the Groenland-Wal flew to Ottawa, headed toward Detroit. She arrived there at the end of a towrope after being forced down on Lake St. Clair by a broken pump. After visiting Chicago, the ship's next destination was the Pacific Coast. Despite some-what half-hearted denials by Capt. von Gronau, it appeared certain that he would carry on along the approximate route flown last year by the Lindberghs from Alaska to Siberia, the Kuvile Islands, Tokyo, that he would continue around the world to home...
Widow Dornsife's electricity was shut off. Neighbors reported 34 cats. Her water supply was discontinued. She went to a nearby pump. When she returned she had 39 cats. The city condemned her house. One of the widow's cats went strolling, returned with a friend. Widow Dornsife chuckled gleefully, polished her oil lamps...