Word: indians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shares. To conservative Boston bankers the new bear is not familiar. To traders and speculators he is known as William H. ("Bill") Danforth, believed to be the biggest speculator in Boston and recently to have descended in person upon Manhattan. Aged 43, he is tall, lean, Indian-like. Legend says that during some 20 years of speculating he has four times pyramided a $1,000 stake to $500,000, and lost it. Since July, Bear Danforth has clawed feverishly, often turning from bear tactics to buy a stock for a quick play. Although new Danforth fortunes...
...Calcutta, meet the principal India jute associations. Last week the Calcutta jute men might well have discussed something else besides how much jute was arriving from the north, what price it was fetching on the Calcutta bazaar, how great were the exports of finished burlap from local mills. For Indian jute dealers were aware that last week in Manhattan had opened the New York Jute and Burlap Exchange, knew that 11/16 of the burlap exported from Calcutta goes to North America. Made from the fibrous stalk of a hemlock-like plant, jute has been for 100 years the prime material...
...paintings, is dedicated to international culture, world peace. Present at the dedication was the Professor himself and his two apple-cheeked sons. His audience wandered through the museum, marveled at the "Hall of the East" in which 100 ritual lights burned before a Tibetan shrine. The audience included turbanned Indians, grave Chinese, eager U. S. intellectuals, a brown woman with gems fastened in her nose, a plump white woman wearing a jingling Colombian Indian costume. Kermit Roosevelt dropped his eyes against curious stares. Natacha Rambova, white turbanned and weighted with gold invited the avid to her studio. Esoteric prattlers shook...
...Vagabond, is first and last a student, free lance though he may be. The point today is a little change of scene. From the anthropology lecture halls and laboratories with their pieces of chipped flint out into the open. A little anthropology at first hand, a field trip, the Indian in life...
...Harvard's team will receive its initial trial under the heavy fire of the cadet guns, while Dartmouth will be weighed in the balance against Columbia. This latter game will bring face to face two of the great backs of eastern football. Hewitt, light blue ace, and Marsters, star Indian threat, will vie with each other for the afternoon's honors...