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...demoralization attendant upon the Great War? . . . Shall we forget that no taint of dishonesty or corruption has ever attached to any man who held public office during that great struggle or to any man who continued to hold office under the Federal Government until March 4, 1921? Shell shock was late, indeed, in arriving if it is to be put forward now as the excuse for these gross misdeeds...
...Bank sought to expend its loans to earn more money, and that it indicated that the Reserve authorities did not expect higher money rates this Fall to any considerable extent. This latter conjecture is important if true; a sudden rise in money rates would not only prove a real shock to security traders, but interrupt much foreign and domestic financing, including perhaps several railroad mergers now under discussion...
...Washington; one of the finest likenesses ever produced, if contemporary portraits are to be believed. And there is no doubt about its nakedness, which I hope won't shock any one at home. I am going to propose to my colleagues that we make an immediate effort to obtain the originals and the right to reproduce them in Italian marble...
Easy money is no doubt the crux of the present situation. It is alleviating the inevitable shock of a liquidation of real estate and rentals. It is carrying many industrial concerns which have been sick ever since 1920 and are even sicker today. It is facilitating railway and utility mergers, and European recovery. But unless it leads to inflation, American business remains distinctly spotty. The Kansas farmer this year is in luck, while the textile-mill operator of New England is distinctly out of luck. The time for the average business man to shut his eyes and dive...
...RICHEST MAN?Edward Shanks ?Knopf ($2.00). Off on a holiday to Italy, suffering from shell-shock, a professor meets a soldier of fortune. Together, they discover a super-man? "the richest man in the world." "He is not one of the millionaires you read about in the newspapers: he is the man behind them?the biggest of them all. He has forests in Canada, ruby mines in the Urals, radium deposits in Brazil, hotels in Japan. There are trust and holding companies and secret agreements. It is a wonderful affair!" This fantastic creature is the storm-centre of startling...