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Whether or not the agreement embraced a more sweeping settlement was not known. In Manhattan, Wall Street opined that the agreement, if ratified by President Obregon, or his successor, General Calles, and the oil companies, would pave the way for a rehabilitation of the oil industry in Mexico by making it possible, for the first time in seven years, for the investment of U. S. capital in the exploration and development of new fields...
From behind a forward wall which clicked into side formations at a signal, Chicago smashed and smashed at Brown, rammed home 19 points to 7 with straight football. A blocked kick led to Brown's score, but a flight of passes failed to add to it. This was the first "big intersectional game...
...Koussevitzky Americans see a musician brought up upon Mozart, Beethovan, Wagner, Chopin, who ought, to their way of thinking, oppose jazz music in mortal combat. With Americans it is the rule that only those to whom the wall of saxophones, the blare of trombones, and the clash of brass are indigenous, can see in jazz anything but degenerate sensuality. Not so Koussevitzky. Without forsaking the classics, he calls jazz "good music". So pronounced became his modern tendencies that Moscow thought him too radical, and he left Russia. But he went, not to Paris, where he was indeed invited...
Throughout the play, an enlarged and presumably expensive orchestra thunders away at Erik Fane's great music. The action aims to tell the story of his life, on which he based his symphony. First he flees Rome with a mistress because his father demands his return to Wall Street. Failing to write his music in Paris, he slides down the scale and is 'next discovered in a Port Said brothel. Ably assisted by quantities of dope, he murders a cockney sailor man. His last lap is in the Marquesas where he comes down with leprosy. In the brief...
Money continues easy, although call rates have risen to 2½%. Gold imports have almost ceased, precious metals being attracted to India for the time being. Foreign issues continue to be floated in Wall Street, and the German loan now seems only a few weeks...