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...Author. Born at Kiev, Russia, in 1881, John Cournos migrated with his parents to Philadelphia at the age of 10. He was successively factory-hand, newsboy, journalist, author: The Wall, The Mask, Babel. Living now in London, his recreations are: "Reading the Greeks and Elizabethans, watching the folly and wonder of life, playing with pebbles on the beach...
...resulted in dull and inert commercial conditions. The political Conventions have meanwhile served to distract attention from business affairs, and with the prospect of unsettled conditions in politics for the next four months, there is a tendency toward watchful waiting all along the line from producer to consumer. Wall Street, however, after several months of an uninteresting experience with meaninglessly see-sawing prices, is now getting the old-fashioned thrill that only a sudden decline in interest rates can give. Bonds and stocks with fixed or certain dividends are making "new highs" daily. Yet, on the basis that it takes...
...Cheers and shouts for Trotzky filled the Opera House. The orchestra tried to compel silence by playing The Internationale, but apparently no one heard it. Throughout the earsplitting demonstration Trotzky sat motionless, his head resting on his hands. Minute followed minute, and still the cheers continued to reverberate from wall to wall until, ten minutes later, Nature conquered the super-vociferous by robbing them of their breath...
...York, to the Bulletin, will not be a city composed of Wall Street, Fifth Avenue, the gilded palaces along the river, and the harbor choked with private yachts; it will be a city of millions of men and women who are toiling every day, attempting to secure food and shelter, a city of little children who ask only for an opportunity to live and become men and women as good as their fathers and mothers...
...Livermore in the past has had his own opinions concerning the business outlook. The importance attached to them in Wall Street and elsewhere is due to the large number of times he has been right...