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...young floor trader for a brokerage house in the early 1880s, Mr. Smythe first learned what treasure is sometimes wrapped in apparently worthless paper. Instructed to sell as junk some old Southern State bonds, young Smythe disposed of most of them for $2 apiece, gave one South Carolina bond to a friend who prom-ised to split any profits he might make on a mysterious sale. A month later Smythe received a check for $400. He lost no time in writing to the Treasurer of South Carolina, who informed him that that particular bond had been redeemable...
...well as the violin. Students dread Mischakoff's caustic tongue but know that, at parties, he is a good fellow. A bachelor, he likes swimming, plays ping-pong gladly and badly, appears with hair mussed and bushy, clothes drooping as though too big for him. As a violin trader he is ready, shrewd, almost always wins. He regrets leaving Chicago but says he could not resist NBC's "fabulous contract...
...chocolate coatings had skimmed the froth from the boiling cocoa pot. But the usual candidates for the role of "titanic forces" are "British interests"-an old bogey of the U. S. cocoa market. Because they are better informed than anyone else on the important West African crop, British traders have been known to take U. S. speculators for a fast ride. Last week cocoa men were passing around a story that United Africa Co. Ltd., greatest single trader and shipper on the British Gold Coast, was depressing the market so that it could buy its beans from the native tribesmen...
...sight of all that wall space, 1,000 sq. ft. of it, got the better of him. An emaciated Huckleberry Finn is there all right, watching a giant Negro land a fat catfish, but there are in addition Frankie & Johnnie and most of the history of Missouri. A slave trader is lashing a Negro, a buckskinned trapper in a fur cap is shooting his rifle. Mormons are being ridden out of town. There are also a country political meeting, a stenographer drinking a bright pink soda, a young mother changing her baby's diapers, a barn dance, a hired...
Hamstrung himself by his President's policy, Free-Trader Hull resolutely explained that the U. S. delegation had left Washington "unprepared" to negotiate on this question and was going to go back to Washington without touching it, much as his heart always bleeds in the cause of Free Trade...