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...Embassy by a series of earth tremors which continued for 28 minutes, but did not terminate a conversation which he was carrying on with Dr. John C. Merriam of the Carnegie Institute. Though the Embassy suffered no shattering damage a large and drafty crack opened in the wall of the Ambassador's bedroom...
...explanation is simple. The "public" had finally come in, tardily, clumsily, "at the top," as always, with the greatest reservoir of cash of all, compared to which Wall Street's organized money force is small. It astonished nobody, because 7,000 tickers are now hypnotizing greedy eyes in 40 states, leaving scarcely a middle-sized town from Maine to California where citizens may not actually see their savings bank withdrawals dance past their giddy eyes in strange, cryptic abbreviations three minutes after passing their checks to the broker...
...Museum of Comparative Zoology has just finished mounting the skeleton of a new Plesiosaur from the Cretaceous deposits of Kansas which, within a few days, will be placed on exhibition. The mounting of this specimen completes the group of these large marine reptiles which occupy the entire west wall of the Mesozoic room. The other specimens all come from England and Germany...
Raymond Koger of Connecticut is twenty seven, married, wealthy, and discontented. All the pleasures of Wall street cannot sweeten the huge hand of business that has thus far kept him occupied since his school days. He is coming to get an A. B., and then spend two more years at the Business School. His motive is not to make friendships that will help him in business, for he has no used to them; nor to be a big man in the college, nor nay of the other reasons that form the basic impulse for many students to enter. His motive...
Upon his return from Europe for a "business visit" last week Monsieur Jean Monnet, onetime wealthy French industrialist (brandy), present Manhattan banking house partner (Blair & Co.) astonished Wall Streeters by explaining through the Manhattan press that his Motherland will henceforth lend money instead of borrowing. An outlet for France's surplus funds must be found, said Banker Monnet, former Deputy Secretary General of the League of Nations. But no "rivalry" with the U. S. will result, he soothed. Co-operation in international finance, U. S., England, France, hand in hand, will be the motto. Usurers sighed or cursed. France...