Word: americans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Several large investment firms try to calm the "little man", by offering him the eternal panacea that business must win. And the selling goes merrily on while quotations race unconcernedly to new lows Speculation still sits firmly in the saddle for "An ancient prejudice has been removed, American intelligence is on the exchange...
With a true American love of spectacles, the participants in the stock market have entered the realm of the stimulati, and they have gone about it in such a way that Mr. Ziegfeld's male interludes are conspicuously unassuming in comparison. The bears rush in to start the ball rolling, and the debacle begins. One hundred million dollars are rushed to the scene and big business sits back to reassure the public that all is well. The next day, a record sale of sixteen million shares is recorded, and the journalists throw up their hands and begin to put their...
Count Francis Pulaski, the official delegate of the Polish government at the Sesquicentennial celebration of the Battle of Savannah, will speak tonight in Phillips Brooks House at 8 o'clock, on the subject, "Count Pulaski and the American Revolution...
...Fortunately, however, he has been given an opportunity to display his ability in a somewhat more pleasing vehicle and the result is surprisingly gratifying. The picture in question is "Illusion" now showing at the University. It is a well-directed and effective tragi-comedy based on the present day American social system. The theme is by no means a new one, but it is attractively presented and capably acted by a good cast. Nancy Carroll in the supporting role is particu- larly worthy of mention...
...could look back on such a triumph as no avowed champion of Labor ever enjoyed in the Americas before. Toronto. Red Indians liked to meet and barter on the site of Canada's second largest city, called it "Toronto" or "Place of Meeting." Here Laborite MacDonald met the American Federation of Labor (see p. 14), raised a cheer by calling himself "still the old workman that I was born." In the afternoon he signed the Golden Book of the Rockefeller-gifted University of Toronto, received the crimson hood of an honorary LL.D. At lunch...