Word: boarded
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Call Money Market. Mr. Simmons's next main contention put upon the Federal Reserve Board the responsibility for the low bond market and the high money rates which usually have been blamed upon the Stock Market. For, said he, the Reserve Board, through its "fear propaganda, warnings, and vague threats," has so filled the capitalists with anxiety, with terror, concerning investments in either stocks or bonds, that this capitalist has put his money not into stocks, not into bonds, but into the call money market- "the safest form of investment known in this country." Furthermore, the more the Reserve...
...corporation bought 1,000 shares of stock instead of putting into the call money market $100,000 secured by those 1,000 shares) brokers' loans would diminish, the market would still be supported, and all would be well. But this solution remains impossible as long as the Reserve Board keeps threatening a collapse in security values. On this commodity inflation point, the dissenting banker would probably wonder how it was that money which would dangerously inflate commodities could be made so harmless, so innocent, when applied to Stock Market transactions...
Another step in the direction of the Five-Day Week, predicted by Contractor Fred T. Ley (TIME, May 6) and many another observer of U. S. labor, was taken last week when the Manhattan Structural Steel Board of Trade granted the Five-Day Week to 2,500 ironworkers. An increase in pay-per-hour insured workers of no decrease in wages. Manhattan electricians and bricklayers had previously won the Five-Day Week battle...
...promote utility mergers and consolidations. What would Brown Derby think? How could the Nation approve? It must be conceded, however, that Investor Broun has doubtless profited tidily on his 25 shares of United Corp., which, starting on the Produce Exchange, moved last week to the Big Board where it opened Thursday at 67 and closed Saturday...
What had happened was that Dr. Shields, believing he had seen the gleam of Modernism in the eyes of a Des Moines University professor, had asked President Wayman to expel him and six others who seemed to have similar gleams. President Wayman had refused. A meeting of the board of trustees upheld Dr. Shields and his loyal secretary-treasurer. Thereupon Dr. Shields exuberantly expelled everybody...