Word: bulling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When a bull kills a man with a sword it is news. In Tortosa's arena last week a dying black beast snapped the matador's espada from its shoulder with a last convulsive shake, hurled it high into the grandstand where it plunged hilt deep in the breast of an unidentified young man. A bystander, attempting to extricate the weapon, cut his hands severely...
...major historical importance is the fresh light Major Butt's letters throw on the breach between Roosevelt and Taft which culminated in 1912 with the formation of the Bull Moose party and the election of Woodrow Wilson. President Taft loved Col. Roosevelt but Mrs. Taft suspected his designs from the outset. The first trouble apparently occurred when President Taft, in a farewell letter to Col. Roosevelt on his departure for Africa, divided credit for his elevation to the Presidency between the Colonel and his brother Charles Taft. Roosevelt resented this division, never answered the letter. Roosevelt continued to feel...
...probably speed up. The question: Will its advance be as great as that of a normal year, or will it be a sluggish, short response which, in a weighted chart, would represent decline? Factors began to appear last week. The Market. As if in anticipation of the long-rumored "bull market after Labor Day," the market began steadying last fortnight, crept higher last week. Brokers, as usual, issued bullish letters, said further reactions will be small. Few traders could find a sound reason for the advance, but many held that it would be the impetus which Business awaits. Especially encouraging...
...General Motors Co. of New Jersey. Three years later he was ousted from control. He immediately formed Chevrolet Company and by May 1916 was able to tell G. M. directors that once again he was in control. Five years later he was forced to tender his resignation. The greatest bull since Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt was broke and jobless...
That Mr. Durant should become active again at the age of 69 is no surprise to the industry. Of Bull Durant legends abound. It is said that he persuaded G. M. directors to vote $100,000 for research on a refrigerator "just so they'd have more to worry about." It was he who, through John Jacob Raskob, then secretary to Pierre Samuel du Pont, interested the "Wilmington crowd" in G. M. He is one of the Federal Reserve's oldest, loudest, fiercest foes. He claims to have visited President Hoover a year ago last spring and warned...