Word: andrew
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...That Corner: Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David, Prince of Wales, sportsman, accomplished knitter (TIME...
...last week's stockmarket plunked to the bottom President Hoover let his Secretary of the Treasury, Andrew William Mellon, make an announcement which the President had been saving up as the Big-News-Item for his own first message to Congress next month, an announcement of immediate tax reduction...
Winners & Losers. From a mass of rumors, little could be definitely learned about the course of individual fortunes. Paper losses of such stockholders as George Fisher Baker and Andrew William Mellon were estimated. On the other hand it was known that the State of New York had profited from the heavy transactions. A tax of 2¢ a share on no par stock and 2¢ per $100 of value on par stock, netted New York $4,884,427 in October. Thus can the state build better roads, broader bridges to bear the increasing traffic of U. S. prosperity...
...Democrats were not inclined to criticize Mr. Raskob because of the stock market, Republicans were. Last fortnight in the Senate, Democratic Leader Robinson of Arkansas attributed in part the recent market crash to a flow of unduly optimistic statements from Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Andrew William Mellon. Defending the Republicans, Senator Robinson of Indiana rose to blame Mr. Raskob for the frenzy of speculation. He called Mr. Raskob a "plunger," cited Mr. Raskob's published faith in stocks, his plans for a workers' investment trust, his null General Motors statement (TIME, Feb.11) as public inspirations to gambling, responsible...
...Andrew Carnegie once threatened to take Miss Keller over his knees and spank her soundly for being the fervent Socialist and birth-controller she still is. He then settled an annuity on her for life and told her that all pessimists had poisoned tongues and should be sent to Siberia. "Mr. Andrew Carnegie" continues Helen Keller "was an optimist. I thought I was one dyed-in-the-wool until...