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...seems quite certain that the men from New England who have enrolled in Professor Sprague's new, series of lectures expect to hear what they want to hear--that the government has taken the wrong step in its controlled inflation. But at the same time there can be no doubt but that the words of one so close to the affairs of that hectic week that followed on President Roosevelt's inauguration will be of much value to businessmen everywhere. He knows the inside story. Whether he will tell it is another thing...
...proposed PWA project to spend $48,000,000 to harness the huge tides of Passamaquoddy Bay. President Roosevelt, however, wrote Mr. Brann expressing his interest in the project. During the campaign Secretary Ickes went to make a personal inspection?to see whether the Army engineers might not have been wrong. Thus Democrats dangled hope of a New Deal plum before the voters...
...There is a great deal of competition among lawyers and it is hard work. My wife is interested in acting and I like the climate of California. I found acting much more pleasant than law." After being considered as a leading man for Mae West in She Done Him Wrong, he was given minor parts in The Woman Accused, Murders in the Zoo, Under the Tonto Rim and Little Women. Count Alexei in The Scarlet Empress is his first important role...
Irreverent Wall Streeters make much of the fact that Major Angas' next to last pamphlet was The Coming Collapse in Gold. In this, predicting world-wide abandonment of gold as money and its decline in terms of paper-money values, he has been completely wrong to date...
...ashamed of ourselves. Anybody who imagines that this is a time for self-congratulation has never poked his nose outside Westminster, the City and Fleet Street. ... We have led the world, many a time before today. . . . We can lead it again. We headed the procession when it took . . . the wrong turning. ... It is for us to find the way out again, into the sunlight...