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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heralded his arrival in the U. S. in 1934. Since then he has conducted his business as an investment counselor in Manhattan, writing a market letter for 300 clients and charging as much as $2,500 a year for market advice. One afternoon last week, just as stock prices began cascading, boardrooms began buzzing with the report that the Major, anticipating "pandemonium," had wired his clients that the selling would start...
...adherents than any other market-forecasting system. In his March 25 letter to clients, Robert Rhea declared that joint penetration of their previous lows by the industrial and railroad averages would mean that the primary market trend had changed from bull to bear, even though the bull market which began last spring has not enjoyed either normal length or the usual hectic "third phase." Robert Rhea unhappily admitted his dilemma and critics of the Dow Theory settled down to a watchful waiting...
...oldster was Pliny Fisk and his fun began in 1881 when he graduated from Princeton to the investment banking house of his father, Harvey Fisk, who had made a fortune helping the Union finance the Civil War. Four years later Pliny Fisk became the firm's trader on the floor of the Exchange, was there christened by his bearded fellow-members the"apple-cheeked boy of Wall Street." But Broker Fisk soon cut a man-size figure. In a few minutes one afternoon he sold $2,000,000 worth of securities to Hetty Green-after the doorman had tried...
...domestic silver industry than anything else I know. . . . When you buy the world's silver you tend to destroy the use of silver elsewhere in the world. . . ." To document his point, Marriner Eccles pointed out that industrial consumption of silver had fallen more than 50% since the Treasury began gorging...
...Rain Maker Lillie Stoat of Oxford, Miss. Her method (which, she says, has never failed in over 400 trials) : find a likely-looking body of water, sit by it several hours daily until it rains. For four days, on and off, she sat by Lake Reedy. Then it began to pour...