Word: marketeers
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...husband, Joe Gamble, is in the penitentiary. I want you to get him out. Joe was the cashier of a small national bank, the only bank at Cross Roads. He thought he saw remarkable opportunities to make lots of money by buying options on Wall Street; but the market went down instead and Joe has been sent...
...scheme to try out tariffs as an unemployment cure. Arguing ingeniously last week in the House of Commons, Conservative Leader Stanley Baldwin said: "I agree that high tariffs are a bar to world business, but you cannot get those tariffs reduced so long as you leave our own market a world dumping ground. I want disarmament in tariffs as much as I want disarmament in arms. But how do you get disarmament in arms? By dealing among equals! America and ourselves can go into a conference and settle something, but, supposing Switzerland made proposals to America to reduce her navy...
...investment trust, and resigned also his membership in the firm of Goldman, Sachs & Co. Always noncommittal are resignations and always open to question are inferences from them. Yet withdrawals were no part of Mr. Catchings' work during the brave days of 1929, when the "new era" group of Market men maintained that soaring stock prices represented the legitimate reflection of prosperity and progress...
Depending so much upon Market psychology, both Shenandoah and Blue Ridge were among the most conspicuous sufferers when the impression that all was well was succeeded by the conviction that everything was terrible. Blue Ridge went from a high of 29? to 3½; Shenandoah from 39?; to 6?. In December the two companies were benefited by artificial respiration: Blue Ridge was permitted to buy a large block of Central States Electric at a price considerably below the market and Shenandoah was permitted to purchase, for retirement, 765,200 shares of its own preferred at a similar bargain figure. The Central...
Other good dance tunes: Ragamuffin Romeo and I Like to Do Things for You (Columbia), Reminiscing and The Verdict is Life (Victor), Alone with My Dreams and So Sympathetic (Brunswick), I'm in the Market for You and Just Like in a Story Book (Victor), Reminiscing and Telling It to the Daisies (Brunswick...