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...They get money from "Wall Street " to continue their business...
...charge that these tyrants are backed by Wall Street raises the old questions: Does money recognize any morality? When a banker steps into his bank, does he leave his conscience on the sidewalk...
...dots" in his novels. The penalty, which hardly fitted the enormity of the offense, prescribed the delightful task of transcribing his "Outline of History" from Morse to Semaphore code--or of working it out in "cuneiform, without the assistance of the Moabite stone"--or the hand-writing on the wall...
Other authors should regard the fate of Mr. Wells with trepidation. Recently writers have become content with pages that resemble Democratic campaign speeches with all the references to Wall Street expurgated. The old masters never relinquished their ascendancy in the reader's mind by such degradations of language. They found words to express even the complex internal phenomena that cause the modern writers such difficulty. But with the other kinds of freedom which are by-products of democracy, comes the liberty to fill in the spaces for oneself. Apparently, authors trust in the reader's imagination to bridge the gaps...
...After several years of railroad experience with that and other roads, he was elected its President in 1887. The subsequent clash between Mr. Fish and the late E. H. Harriman for the control of the Illinois Central proved to be one of the epochal conflicts in the history of Wall Street. Mr. Harriman, who sought the Central as an outlet to the Union Pacific, broke with Mr. Fish in 1906, and after initially getting the worst of the bitter struggle which ensued, finally succeeded in securing enough shareholders' proxies to eliminate him from the affairs of the road...