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...herd stampedes through a valley, over a hill, across a beach and into the water, where Mala and his companions harpoon them. There are, also, less healthy exercises to be seen in Eskimo-lust, murder, polygamy. Mala makes the mistake of lending his wife to a Nordic fur-trader who gets her tipsy, rapes her and then allows her to shuffle off across the snow where his assistant shoots her under the pardonable delusion that she is a seal. For harpooning the fur-trader Mala becomes fair prey for two members of the Canadian Mounted Police. They inveigle...
Commented famed Correspondent Walter Duranty of the New York Times, who had accompanied Litvinoff from Moscow: "It is a Yankee horse trade. M. Litvinoff is a pretty shrewd trader himself, but old-fashioned Dutch-American stock has done some trading...
...fled Jones, Imperator. He was pursued by the tom-tom's beat, by the tax-leeched natives whom he had ruled, by voodoo devils, by the weakness of the mortal flesh. Three shots rang out. His Majesty fell, staggered forward, collapsed at the feet of Smithers, white, rum-soaked, trader. "Where's year 'igh an' mighty airs now, yer bloomin' Majesty? Gawd blimey, but yer died in the 'eighth o' style...
...weeks ago, the Senate's busy Prosecutor Ferdinand Pecora called on Exchange President Whitney, told him speculation must be curbed. Last week the Exchange announced two new rules: 1) brokers must report weekly to the Exchange all that they know of the operations of pools and syndicates; 2) traders with debit balances of over $5,000 must maintain margins equal to 30% of the debit balance; those with debit balances less than $5,000 must maintain a margin equal to 50% of the debit balance. Calculated in the ordinary way-the proportion of a trader's equity...
...Chancellor Hitler's "Maritime Adviser,'' Herr Emil Helfferich, cried: "I propose that this stockholders' meeting voice its ardent loyalty to our leader, Adolf Hitler, and to the spirit of National Socialism." This was done and Nazi Helfferich, whose chief reputation is that of a successful trader and plantationist in the East Indies, marched out of the meeting as the duly elected board chairman of Hamburg-American...