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...which the notes were issued to meet was some $970,000,000. Secretary Mellon's dislike of the high-rate situation was reflected in the small amount of the new issue. Only $525,000,000 were authorized, whereas $600,000,000 or more had been confidently predicted by Wall Street. The balance of the Treasury's September bill, which with interest on the public debt will amount to some $1,040,000,000, must be met by September income tax receipts...
There are those who earn their daily bread by being beggars. Visitors to Palestine remember particularly the beggars who cluster by the old Wailing Wall in Jerusalem...
Strangely aloof from the excitement of Manhattan's Wall Street is neighboring Hanover Square. While Wall Street appears to be what it actually is-the financial centre of the world's greatest city -Hanover Square seems more like a respectable and long-established village...
...remote is Hanover Square from the feverish doings of Wall Street that the casual visitor might leave with the impression that little business finds its way there. For such a visitor would not be likely to see the ringlike tables which themselves form a ring about Hanover Square...
...recent stock trading days has been buying Paramount-Famous-Lasky stock. That somebody, it became clear last week, was affiliated with E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., which among its multifarious investments controls Du Pont-Pathe Film Mfg. Co. (Eastman Kodak rival). So the inference gained credence in Wall Street that du Fonts would soon be on Paramount-Famous-Lasky's directorate...