Word: bonde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...From Cleveland came word of the big gest individual bond buyer of World War II: a ruddy, superquiet stock speculator named Harry William Hosford, who had cleaned up in both the bull market of the early '20s and the bear market of the early '30s. Once a cabin boy on Great Lakes steamers, Harry Hosford now unostentatiously bought in one whack $21,-000,000 worth of bonds. (Later he disclosed he had bought $11,000,000 in bonds last fall.) Cleveland newspapers had never before printed Harry Hosford's picture, had not mentioned his name...
Anticlimactically ended was the well-publicized case of balding, bespectacled Bandsman Kay Kyser v. the draft. Turned down on his 1-A appeal, despite OWI-backing for his efforts as a war-bond hawker, the 36-year-old swingster was turned down by Army physicians (hernia and arthritis...
...superlative promotion, flooded the country with quotes on the morale value of circuses ranging from Greek literature to an account of the circus in Moscow (by Leland Stowe). They even talked about fighting inflation (the circus would sop up purchasing power), promised the Treasury that they would exchange war bonds for seats at every performance (total circus war-bond sales in Manhattan...
Determined to have their share of the honors recently passed about the Houses as the lead shifted from Gold Coast to river front, Kirkland's Deacons last week supported the Second War Loan with stamp and bond purchases totalling...
Mary Martin's attraction for College men was confirmed last week, when the promise of a personal letter and photograph lured Joseph C. Snow '46, of Winthrop House into leading the bond and stamp sales with a purchase...