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...Washington police, forewarned by the U. S. State Department, were on hand to disperse and arrest a brigade of placard-bearers who appeared one day outside the White House in the name of the All-American Anti-Imperialist League. "Wall Street and not Sandino is the real bandit," said one placard. "We do not appeal to the White House but to the masses against the White House," said another. In the White House, unaware that his Nicaraguan policy was being so openly criticized, President Coolidge shook hands with other, flattered, peaceful tourists...
...tragedy of a father who had learned that his wife and five children were so gravely injured that Death might be expected to lay a cold hand upon all of them within a few hours. Maddened with grief, the poor man butted his head against a stone wall, suffered concussion of the brain...
...last 18 months more and more (now about 100) A. & P. stores have opened fresh meat departments. They are perhaps Armour & Co.'s greatest customers. On that account when a group of Chicago and Manhattan bankers and brokers a fortnight ago bought 1,000,000 Armour & Co. shares, Wall Street gossip said that A. & P. would get the shares. This was denied...
...lives in a "dandy little Italian-villa-style bungalow with two bathrooms . . . a slit in the wall for the disposal of safety razor blades . . . garbage incinerator . . . electric washing machine...
...Author is at that early middle stage of Wall Street power where he dry-washes his hands with dignity. Aged 35, Harvard graduate of 1914, he has also written a book, Principles of Organization Applied to Modern Retailing, which had a large effect on department store management...