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...thrown bombs. Now a wall of the O. G. P. U. building gaped with a great jagged hole. As the white clad stretcher bearers rushed within, a crowd of ambulance chasers gathered speculatively upon the pavement. Perhaps they would see the great V. G. Menzhinsky, Chief of the "Cheka," carried forth, maimed and bleeding upon a strip of canvas stretched between two poles...
...Wall Street, greatest of all money marts, silence is neither golden nor popular. The greater the tumult, the greater the profits of the traders, the more stocks and bonds are being sold and resold, the more money is being borrowed and relent. Last week, the powers of The Street prepared to ask New York's Board of Aldermen to still the noises of riveting, pile driving. But it was to spare their ears for the more important sounds of money-changing...
Bull. For four years, Wall Street has been noisier than ever before in its history. It has seen a stream of gold pouring in from abroad. Between 1923 and 1928, the U. S. exported gold worth $500,000,000, but imported $1,000,000,000. Each $1 of gold in a bank reserve means a potential $13 of credit. In four years, the U. S. in this way alone added $6,500,000,000 to its credit resources. It could finance a building boom, a Florida boom, vast instalment selling, new highways, new factories. It had enough credit to support...
...other sections is to stand by the ship and concentrate every effort in securing the election of a Democratic Senate and House which will give hearty support to Smith in every measure of reform in which we stand together. . . . But they should stand in Congress like a stone wall against any recommendation that Smith as President should make to modify the Prohibition enforcement...
...John Pierpont Morgan stood, last week, at the corner of Broad and Wall streets, Manhattan, he doubtless noted that increasing the size of the private dining room of J. P. Morgan & Co. is altering the Wall street skyline. But he had no fears that the great House of Morgan would become top-heavy, tumble. Its four stories rest on foundations built to support thirty...