Word: bazley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...publishers who know what to do about it are Richard Leo Simon and Max Lincoln Schuster, who issued Inflation Ahead! at $1. Last summer they snapped up a pamphlet prepared by Briton's Major Lawrence Lee Bazley Angas, published it as The Coming American Boom (TIME...
Wall Street had fun last week at the expense of Major Lawrence Lee Bazley Angas and his latest pamphlet The Coming American Boom (TIME, Aug. 27). For a time the brisk, dapper London stockbroker, whose record as a market forecaster has been well publicized, displaced President Roosevelt as the most-discussed man in the Street. One day when stock-market trading dwindled to the lowest level in twelve years, brokers said it was because everyone had stopped to read Major Angas' prediction. Few days later when trading swelled suddenly to more than 1,000,000 shares and prices soared...
Major Lawrence Lee Bazley Angas is a stocky, blue-eyed Briton with a bristly mustache and a legendary reputation as an economic seer. Unhallowed by academic standing, he published Germany and Her Debts in 1923, a forecast of the European currency debacle. In 1926 it was The Coming Collapse in Rubber, about the same time the Stevenson restriction plan smashed and rubber started its long slide from $1.04 to 3¢ per lb. In 1931 The Coming Rise in Gold Shares was followed two days after Britain took sterling off gold by The Course of the Coming Boom [in Britain]. Just...
Whether or not any other U. S. citizens make money out of Major Angas' new work, it is virtually certain that M. Lincoln Schuster and Richard L. Simon will. These two bright young publishers, who together are Simon & Schuster, Inc., put Lawrence Lee Bazley Angas in their idea file late last year. With few exceptions. Major Angas has hitherto published his works privately, but Mr. Schuster, as shrewd an opportunist as there is in the publishing world, was sure he could make the Major a potential best seller. Not until last week, however, did Mr. Schuster come to terms with...