Word: marketeers
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...figures failed to reflect large income tax losses due to last year's stock-market crash. In fact income tax receipts were up $80,000,000 above the 1929 level. Business depression since Jan. 1 likewise made no appearances in these fiscal statistics; its effect will not emerge until next year's tax payments...
...bull market ex-President, the believer that the business of the U. S. is Business, he chose as subject for his first pronouncement the depressed state of trade, viewing it as a psychological phenomenon (see p. 39). Next he surveyed the nation's moral fibre: ". . . its founders . . . sought to live in the things of the spirit. They put first things first, They set small store on the things that are temporal but strove mightily for the things that are eternal. If this nation is to endure, we shall have to continue to walk by their light...
...sultry afternoon of July 22, 1916 a Preparedness Day parade moved martially down San Francisco's Market Street between close-packed lines of spectators. Suddenly at the corner of Steuart Street a large bomb in a suitcase exploded, showered the throng with metal slugs, killed ten persons, wounded 40. Within the week police arrested Thomas Mooney, radical labor leader, Warren Billings, I. W. W. agitator, and three smaller figures. They were charged with wholesale murder. Billings, who had been found guilty in 1913 of using dynamite in labor disputes, was tried, convicted, sentenced to life imprisonment. Mooney was also...
...Reichstag last week Deputy Karl Freybe, pork-packer, member of the little Economic Party, gave Spartan advice to East Prussian pig raisers who have been bitterly complaining of low prices, overproduction and cut-throat Polish pig competition in the German market...
...some $14,000,000 in the purchase of stock in Consolidated Gas, in which it now owns some 200,000 shares. United Corp. has also recently acquired 2,100,000 additional shares of Columbia Gas & Electric, but these shares were secured on a stock exchange basis, not in open market purchases. It was commonly believed that United Corp. would soon issue additional stock, thus replenishing its cash reserve, but that such new stock would not be issued until completion of the United Corp. Columbia exchanges...