Word: 20s
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...booming '20s, one of the financial shenanigans which helped boost stocks to their shaky 1929 highs was stock splits. For example, a corporation whose stock had been pushed up to $100 might split it by exchanging one share for ten, selling at $10 each. Thus, small-fry speculators were lured in, and the price could be run up again far beyond the stock's true value...
They knew her not as Alice, but more romantically as Kiki. Though she was flamboyantly real and fabulously full-blown, she was to most of the artists, revolutionaries, Babbitts, drunkards and dreamers more a symbol than a person. To the tortuous '20s in Paris, Kiki was what George du Maurier's lovely, fictional Trilby (whose tiny feet were called the most beautiful in the Quarter) had been to a former generation of Bohemians. Nobody ever looked at Kiki's feet...
...francs ($1,763) a performance-a terrific take for present-day Paris. Entire families, from grand' mère down to ten-year-old Gabrielle, were trooping to see the show. They were seeing a spirited, shined-up Nanette. The Charleston-mad flapper of the '20s had become a Gallic jitterbug. In an atmosphere of glittering color and gorgeous chorines, Nanette (Claudine Cereda) writhed to boogie-woogie arrangements of Vincent Youmans' (see MILESTONES) I Want to Be Happy and crooned...
James A. Stillman, late National City Banker, heir to millions, and co-star of one of the gamiest divorce suits of the '20s, turned out to have died deep in debt. Stillman and wife "Fifi" charged each other with offside parenthood-she by an Indian guide, he by a chorus girl. She got the divorce, promptly married Harvester Heir Fowler McCormick. A New York estate tax appraisal last week: Stillman owned $875,745, owed $1,079,539. Notable debt: $362,848 to the four Stillman children for their support...
...these and many other medicines was Modie Joseph Spiegel Jr., fast-talking, energetic president and general manager. Modie Spiegel took over the 80-year-old family business in 1932, when it was deep in Depression trouble. Annual sales had dropped from a $20 million peak in the booming '20s to a disastrous $7 million. Losses since 1929 had been $2.6 million...