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Undoubtedly the most spectacular occurrence of the past week has been the precipitate fall in many rates throughout the country, but especially in Wall Street. Call money had already broken 3%, and the New York Reserve had reduced its rate to 4%. A year ago this would have resulted in the withdrawal of out-of-town balances from New York, and a consequent stiffening of the local money rates. This time, however, the country everywhere had an oversupply of funds. Hence, in the last week, all money descended to 2% for the first time in six years, while...
...there has been much conjecture regarding the opinions and the position of Jesse L. Livermore, easily the leading stock market operator of today. Back in the Winter he had announced (TIME, Feb. 25) that he was "bearish" on industrial stocks-a prediction which the subsequent market declines emphatically justified. Wall Street, half-persuaded to turn bullish on the present low money rates, has waited to see "when Livermore would cheer up" and take the lead in "putting 'em up." But Mr. Livermore still stands pat. In a recent interview, the famed operator stated his opinion and his reasons...
...most of the staffs are mainly recruited from ex-street car men, unfrocked clergymen, broke brokers, countermen, steer bulldoggers et also. The pay is incredibly poor. Rather than work for a newspaper for $15 per week, it would be better to get a job as a board-boy in Wall Street for $20. You'd go much farther. No matter how well you do your work a publisher will let you go before he'll raise your salary, knowing that some confidence man in tough lines can be picked up to take your...
...method will be devised for sending high-frequency "lightning" such as was produced in the Pittsfield laboratories by Faccioli (TIME, June 18, 1923) over an ultraviolet track. Such a combination would indeed be a fatal ray. Meanwhile, a prolific list of competing "rays" cropped up. Dr. T. F. Wall, of Sheffield University, England, applied for patents on a "means of transmitting electrical energy in any direction without the use of intermediate transmission wires," in which the British authorities are also said to be interested. Two other Englishmen, Prior and Raffe, have similar devices. Grammachikov, a Russian, has invented...
...Sound, very sound," said the critic. "Yes," said the politician, and then, hungry for more, he beamed and added, "sound-and what else?" "Nothing else," said the critic. To date, Senator Fess's only reply has been a declaration that the episode has shown that "Wall Street" disliked his attitude on the bonus. Upon his sudden failure to sustain the President's veto, however, he has not commented...