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...debt as "a benefit to the thousands of investors in the bonds & securities of the railroad and in the general public interest." Then he swung into a discussion of the "masses"-or what Franklin Delano Roosevelt calls "the forgotten man" in his political orations.* Rasped General Dawes at his sharpest and shrillest: "It's the mass attitude that controls and. this mass attitude is changing from pessimism to optimism. Take a look at agriculture and the ordinary business of the country and compare them with the picayunish antics on the New York Stock Exchange. The whole country, it seems...
...Giantism". Sharpest and most studious of criticisms were voiced in Manhattan where a Round Table Conference on Utility Regulation was being held by almost 100 commission members and regulation students. Finance Professor James Cummings Bonbright of Columbia University, Secretary of the Power Authority of the State of New York, spoke on "The Breakdown of the Public Utility Holding Company." Utilitymen read his speech with keen interest for they knew Professor Bonbright to be a cousin of the late William Prescott Bonbright and of Irving W. Bonbright, co-founders of Bonbright & Co., utility bankers...
Graced with the best profile and sharpest tongue in the Barrymore family, John has been vastly more publicized than his brother. He is now an actor so celebrated that everyone is familiar with the legends of his scapegrace youth...
...last week New York Stock Exchange values jumped $3,000,000,000 in five trading hours. The next market day they surged up another $4,000,000,000 in two hours. The rise was the sharpest and strongest in months. Simultaneously cotton moved up $1 per bale. Wheat spurted 1¢ and 2¢ per bu. Commodities bulged hopefully. The cause: A bill (House of Representatives No. 9203) "to improve the facilities of the Federal Reserve System for the service of commerce, industry and agriculture, to provide means for meeting the needs of member banks in exceptional circumstances and for other purposes...
Rightly or wrongly they acquired the reputation of working their casts harder, paying their chorus girls less, driving the sharpest bargains on Broadway. In 1927 Lee & Jake owned, leased or operated 43 first class theatres in New York, 55 in other U. S. cities, six in London. Came the Depression and the revolt of the Broadway angels. The Shuberts sold their British theatres; most of the others remained dark. Wall Street attempted to take over-with the predictable result that last week the bankruptcy became official. A loss of about $3,000,000 was disclosed. So Lee Shubert, who always...