Word: depressed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bear operations, since they did not include short sales covered the same day. He offered a sharp contradiction to Mr. Whitney's testimony (and to a major point in all Mr. Whitney's declarations in defense of the Exchange) by opining that short selling does temporarily depress the market, that short sales covered the same day do add to breaking prices...
...There has been a rumor that you broke with President Hoover and became a short seller to depress prices. Is that rumor correct? A. Now what object would I have in doing a thing like that...
Senator Counzens of Michigan: It has come to my attention that a broker may use his customer's stock to depress the value of that stock...
Thorough ventilation by means of carbon dioxide sustains the system until the effects of carbon monoxide wear off. Narcotics like morphine depress respiration...
...selling practices of all U. S. stock exchanges. Broad though the range of the inquiry was, most Senators realized that its real target was short sales on the New York Stock Exchange. From President Hoover down, many a U. S. citizen has long believed that such sales maliciously depress the market, add to hard times...