Word: bulling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...relief: 1) a $250,000,000 appropriation sponsored by the committee's chairman, Senator Robert Marion La Follette Jr. of Wisconsin who likes to play a sort of political Robin Hood; 2) a $375.000.000 appropriation backed by Senator Edward Prentiss Costigan of Colorado, Virginia-born Harvardman, old-time reformer, Bull Mooser, Anti-Saloon Leaguer, longtime (1917-28) Tariff Commissioner. Having no stake in the proceedings, the rest of the committee went home for the holidays, leaving Senators La Follette and Costigan to prepare what amounted to a record on reasons for relief...
Focus of the Senators' interest was the Bull Market and the 1929 Crash, with particular reference to parts played therein by banks and the Reserve. Most of the Committee's findings were ancient history to the investor who had lost his shirt. But bankers throughout the land perused the report carefully because they knew it would serve as a working text for bank legislation yet to be framed by the Committee. Buried under piles of financial statistics were these general conclusions...
Spectacular even in Bull Market days was the upward rush of Goldman Sachs Trading Corp. common stock ($108 to $224 in two months). One day last week Goldman Sachs made another spectacular jump but this time only from $1.88 to $3.63. As soon as Goldman Sachs started jumping last week Wall Streeters guessed at what was coming. Last spring it became known that Tri-Continental Corp. was angling for a large interest in Goldman Sachs. When Tri-Continental ceased angling, it was rumored that Atlas Utilities Corp. was working out a deal...
...Virgin. A chapel was speedily built on the hill; the image became an object of veneration, was named Guadalupe after the famed Spanish shrine. In the 17th Century the validity of the apparition was accorded Papal recognition; in the 18th Century the Virgin Mary was by a Papal Bull declared Mexico's Patroness and Protectress. Religious enthusiasm was unbounded and Dec. 12 was set apart forever as a clay for holy fiestas...
...triumphant trip. Smalltown citizens-especially firemen in full uniform-cheered the team at station after station. Liveliest demonstration occurred at Bristol, whose main street is the State line between Virginia and Tennessee. Citizens escorted Tennessee's most famed back, Eugene Tucker ("Wild Bull," "Bristol Blizzard," "Black Knight") McEver across the platform so he could exchange a word with his parents, then carried him back to the train. When the team arrived in Manhattan, two stowaways were found in the baggage...