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...Allies lay in creating a favorable trade balance with which to buy foreign securities. They reproached the Allies for not having given them adequate aid in their own interests immediately after the War, and when the Ruhr occupation took place the nation put its back against the wall...
Several years ago, Charles N. Haskell, the first Governor of Oklahoma, moved to Manhattan and became associated with what is known as "Wall Street." His original business ventures in railroads, real estate and other Oklahoma activities had left him with a desire for a wider financial field and the funds to use in it. The Oklahoma oil boom led him into speculative oil promotion and financing, and there grew up a group of stocks known as the "Haskell Companies," which were active on the Wall Street exchanges...
Moralists have interpreted the Haskell episode two ways. One school of critics compares him to former Westerners who have "gone into the Street" to trim it, and found that the Wall Street professionals knew a thing or two themselves. The other school writes heart-interest articles about Mr. Haskell's childhood days at his mother's knee, and tearfully declares: "Wall Street...
Walker, l.w. r.w., A. Davis Beals, c. c., Van Gerbig Hodder, r.w. l.w., C. Davis Chase, l.d. r.d., Scull Crosby, r.d. l.d., Wall Newell, g. g., Gleason...
...canvas is the work of John Singer Sargent, whose portrait of Major Henry Lee Higginson is hung in the Union, and whose wall paintings adorn both sides of the main stairway in Widener...