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First Game. Connie Mack chose his ablest pitcher, Robert Moses ("Lefty") Grove. Gabby Street started Paul Derringer, the youngest pitcher on the St. Louis team. No pitcher in his first major league season had ever started in a World Series game before. It was a daring move that might have disconcerting effect and, as Grove was likely to win anyway, there was little to be lost in trying it. For two innings, it appeared that the strategy had been brilliant. In the warm, bright afternoon, the crowd that filled Sportsman's Park chortled and cheered; a hog-caller...
With so much agitation against short-selling it was becoming apparent last week that the New York Stock Exchange would have to make some move itself or else run the risk of very drastic impositions upon it. One fair-sized member firm, Pouch & Co., announced it would no longer lend stocks to bears because, while shortselling helps a normal market, it is "utterly immoral and unwarranted" in a crisis. This attitude was not, however, officially that of the Exchange...
...opening move in its defense the Stock Exchange last week ordered all members not to use the phrase "bear-raid" unless they could substantiate it. The reason was clear: When a stock tumbles, perhaps on some internal development in the company, brokers often say it was because of a "raid" and increase the feeling against bears. That the move was a little late seemed implied by the lack of differentiation last week between raids and real shortselling when bears were attacked. A raid is definitely aimed to depress a stock through sheer force or by knowledge of stock that will...
...Fanny Evans and her six children. All 15 children played, squabbled, fought in one yard. One day Mrs. Evans had Mrs. Penal arrested. She told a judge Mrs. Penal had attacked her with a stick in a dispute over rights to the yard. The judge ordered them both to move...
...seems that both the faculty and the students would cooperate enthusiastically to insure the move. Professor could hardly be expected to object to an audience formed of persons absorbed in all discussion. Moreover, students would fill an otherwise vacant hour by creating a symmetrical education, which is so essential to the business world. Syracuse Daily Orange...