Word: bearse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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For a long time Congressman Fiorello ("Little Flower") La Guardia of New York had been quietly stuffing a Pandora's Box with woe for Wall Street. Last week the box, a big, brown trunk, was so full of woe that it required two men to lug it in to Senator...
Summarized Congressman La Guardia : ''Sordid as these facts may seem, I believe that the same sort of story could be told regarding every stock in which there was a pool." As to Bears, they did the same things, "only with the reverse English."
Dean Donham's address to second-year men of the Business School yesterday, expressing as it did the optimistic prediction that practically all of this year's graduating class will be placed in jobs by the School employment bureau, bears definite indication of the importance now laid on professionalized training...
Bear Brush vigorously opposed abolition of short selling. If no bears sold against foolish bidding or covered when there was foolish selling, he said, there would be "terrific swings" in the market. "The use of dummy names has advantages and disadvantages. If word got round that some bad actor was...
A far different witness was baldish Percy Rockefeller. Shy and beady-eyed, looking to the camera much like his cousin's friend Soul Surgeon Frank Buchman (see p. 22), he was prodded unmercifully by Counsel Gray. He said he could not remember what stocks he had sold last January...