Word: smells
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years lowans have complacently accepted Sioux City, wide-open river town as something of a black sheep on the edge of their fold. Verne Marshall, crusading editor of the Cedar Rapids Gazette, did not object to Sioux Citizens having their gambling and highballs, but his nostrils quivered at the smell of bargaining between lawbreakers and officials. After a legislative investigation which resulted in the conviction of State Liquor Commission Chairman Harold M. Cooper for disposing illegally of State liquor seals. Editor Marshall early this year prodded Woodbury County (Sioux City) into a grand jury investigation...
Last week, also, Dr. Toomey impatiently objected to the current belief advanced by Dr. Simon Flexner, that infantile paralysis is contracted through the nose, whence the virus passes up the nerve of smell to the brain and spinal cord. In Science last week Dr. Toomey flatly declared: "In the human being the causative agent usually enters the digestive system," whence it passes to the spine by way of sympathetic nerves. According to Dr. Toomey true infantile paralysis is caused by a virus which attacks nerves after a toxin created by the virus makes those nerves vulnerable. The paralysis which...
Atlas Corp. was formed in 1923 as a private pool by Mr. Odium, his friend George Howard of Simpson, Thatcher & Bartlett and their wives with a capital of $40,000. It took a drubbing in 1926, but coasted profitably into 1929. Then Floyd Odium began to smell Depression, to hoard his cash. When the October market barrage had subsided, he started picking up damaged investment trusts like Goldman Sachs Trading Corp., Shenandoah Corp. and Blue Ridge...
...unconfirmed rumors that No. 23 Wall St. had talked with No. 10 Downing St. about stabilizing the world's currencies and bringing the fantastically kited price of silver to lower levels. In the House of Commons innuendoes were hurled by Labor M. P.'s, who now smell "munitions" in everything, that Banker Morgan had somehow turned up in the interest of Merchants of Death...
David Saperstein, director of SEC's Trading & Exchange Division, is an old-time Pecoraman. Smart, he has hired Wall Streeters steeped in the lore of the tape to watch the ticker day in, day out for signs of manipulation. Whenever his tape readers smell a pool, squads of SEC investigators swarm into action. Technical Adviser Paul Gourrich was trained in Kuhn, Loeb...