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...reducing crime? Many of your readers must have opinions upon this subject and I therefore propose that they be invited to express them. I'm wondering whether the public is really interested or are they too busy in their mad rush watching the ticker in Wall Street, or worrying how to provide funds to pay the next installment on the new car! Perhaps they prefer to leave it to the President's Crime Commission to diagnose the case and propose a suitable remedy...
After lunch Mum Scot MacDonald sat down to an even more closely hushed conference with Governor of the Bank of England Montagu Collet Norman and Wall Street's dynamic, cosmopolitan Thomas William Lamont...
...last week, conferred past midnight, lost their sleep. Thursday's stock market had closed strong when the Bank of England did not raise its rediscount rate. Then, late in the afternoon, came announcement that the Federal Reserve Bank of New York had raised its rate from 5% to 6%. Wall Street was caught unprepared. Tycoons rushed to telephones, brokers called up bankers. Ten members of the Stock Exchange were seen leaving a Broad Street building in one nervous, gesticulating group. Long after the dinner hour two Rolls-Royces still waited outside the austere House of Morgan...
...William ("Billy") Sunday, silent, these many months, screamed at a Pitman, N. J. camp meeting: "The Church has got its back to the wall! They're building nine theatres to one Church. All people think of is entertainment-movies and the like. They offered me $1,000,000 to go into the movies, but I turned it down. I can do more good speaking to the people face to face...
...gallon of gasoline. It has a 4-cylinder air-cooled engine. It is a two seater but three can squeeze into it. It will sell for $200. It was invented by James V. Martin of Martin Aeroplane Factory, Garden City, L. I. Mr. Martin is looking for a Wall Street firm to finance it and for a mail order house to distribute it. It is the new "baby car." arrival of which has been for some weeks rumored (TIME, July...