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...think there's a sort of something that's called-a wall-aboo...
...escape. For one, I confess myself deeply shamed and moved to searching of my own conscience and review of my own conduct here and diligent study of the course of the Democrats of the two Houses when I read in the newspapers constantly that customers are rushing to Wall Street to buy stocks, feeling assured of safety and prosperity by the fact that the Democratic Party has been beaten by 7,000,000 majority; that throughout the country business men are rejoicing in promise of a great year ahead following our overwhelming rebuff and rebuke...
...While in China I bumped into a war," he told me, "and I wanted to see how it felt to be under fire again. They certainly are stupid fighters : I stood behind a temple wall and let a sharpshooter spatter bullets all over it. He never came within a mile of me! "My wife, though, got into more serious difficulties. She went out walking one day and just as she was enjoying the scene, the Chinese thought they'd start their war, and she found herself between the armies. Fortunately a shell that struck three feet from her proved...
...these dinners was held during the past week. The guest of honor was George Fisher Baker, Chairman of the Board of the First National Bank, doyen of U. S. bankers, hale and hearty, just on the short side of his 85th birthday and the 61st anniversary of his Wall Street career...
...have been issued. Of the latter, 762,000 shares (or 65%) were recently held by the General Electric, the Westinghouse and the United Fruit Companies, leaving 393,400 shares (about 35%) in the hands of individual security investors and speculators. Since many of these latter are held by what Wall Street calls "firm hands," the floating supply of Radio common shares is not large, unless the three above-named corporations have begun to sell out their large holdings. Consequently, the amount of stock available in the stock market, temporarily at least, is not large...