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...financial conditions." June 20, 1931. In Chicago, General Dawes will again direct, as chairman. Central Republic Bank & Trust Co. which he founded 30 years ago after having served as Comptroller of the Currency under President McKinley. As a banker, he must have been most pleased last week by the sudden shrinkage of gold exports when the French balances were withdrawn, and by the rise of the dollar in world markets. The electric power figures which impressed Banker Dawes were those for the week ended June ii wherein output was down 11.5% from the same week in 1931 against...
...York Stock Exchange there was a sudden rise in Kreuger & Toll debenture certificates. From 1/32 they hopped to ?, a gain...
Military members of the regime were soon blamed for forcing Don Carlos out. These included General Arturo Puga, president of the Junta which was formed at the same time as the new Cabinet, and Defense Minister Colonel Marmaduke Grove. The sudden "illness" of General Puga was invoked as an excuse for not announcing Don Carlos' resignation. Taking the standoffish attitude of a soldier who thinks civil matters should be left to civilians, Col. Marmaduke Grove said: "I declare emphatically the firm determination of the Army & Navy not to mix in politics but to continue fulfillment of their duty...
...Mandoran's top. Benighted on their return, it is only Patsy's understanding with the mountain outlaws that gets them home alive. Terrified, Brenda whisks the children away to England. Aunt Dicksie refuses to budge from Puppetstown. stays on with only Patsy to guard her from sudden death. "Ah well," as Patsy said when things got bad, "sure what is it all only passing through life...
...collector of notes on subjects that have diversity-such as deviations from concentricity in the lunar crater Copernicus, and a sudden appearance of purple Englishmen," Author Fort found chief interest less in single marvels than in marvelous relations and coincidence. With humorous seriousness he retells here, mostly from newspaper sources, scores of gruesome or simply inexplicable incidents, tries to find a place for them in his philosophy. Rabid vampires, with white streaks of froth on their bloody mouths, flitting through the jungles of Trinidad seem to him connected with more human affairs. In 1867 a fishing smack set sail from...