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...opposite may happen equally well and a man for whom the basic elements of a course are difficult to grasp may never reach more than an average grade, due to the had impression made in November; for, in spite of assurances to the contrary, the handwriting on the wall in November is usually indelible and has not been wholly obliterated in February...
...week announced after an analysis of country-wide scope that business and trade conditions of the U. S. were healthy. In the opinion of the President trade trends showed a continued advance. His statement caused a slight increase in prices on the stock market but for just one day. Wall Street, reasoning that the Chief Executive is usually optimistic, scrutinized his remarks with care. Some brokers questioned them. The loss in railway net receipt "is not great" was a contention of the President. The last available figures registered a decline of 11% which Wall Street considered hardly small. "The roads...
Four hundred and twenty thousand persons own the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. As stockholders, they have been delightfully anxious for six months. So have brokers in Wall Street. The company in six months has earned much money. Wherever two or three traders have been gathered together it has been whispered that the company would "cut a melon," market jargon for an increased dividend...
...Wall Street, puzzled by the silence of Mr. Ford, continued its speculation regarding his new moves and how they may affect his greatest rival, General Motors Corp...
...since they formed their literary vaudeville team. Readers of the American Mercury, of which Mr. Mencken is editor, Mr. Nathan, dramatic reviewer, have smirked at the pair with the nervously good-natured tolerance that a stupid child affects when he sees "Billy is a fool" written upon the school wall. Intelligent critics realize the formula upon which these angry, mocking mimes base their performance. The grotesqueries which they flay are often genuine; but most intelligent people find more important things to think about than such grotesqueries. The admirers of the team of Mencken & Nathan are generally to be found among...