Word: bullish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That U. S. church membership is increasing faster than the population was the bullish message of the annual statistical report of Christian Herald, published last week. The last to be prepared by Lutheran George Linn Kieffer, who died in his Rosedale, L. I. pulpit this spring, the Herald tables were completed by his wife Maude. According to the Kieffers' denominational sources, there are 63,493,036 church members in the land, 837,404 more than last year. Rate of increase was 1.33%, as compared to .71% for population...
...pension snarl and the demand for wage increases, but also a battle for a revision of freight rates to give his carriers more revenue. But John Pelley is no worrier. Said he in the worst of hard times: "Get me right. I'm not going to talk bullish. Nothing like that. I can't see myself sitting on a pink cloud right now. But people are overdoing this pessimism." Today, with the pink cloud at least in sight. John Pelley, like a spry trainman who runs ahead to see that all is clear, is giving the pink cloud...
...point SEC did gain a victory. When Otis bought the Murray Ohio stock originally, the big stockholders it bought from agreed not to dump any of their remaining shares on the market for a certain length of time, a fact which was not stated in the offering prospectus. Bullish for the broker though such a statement would have been, the Court held that it should have been published, ordered that the like be published in future. Said the Otis lawyers last week: "The question as to what information should be contained in the prospectus has been the subject...
...Landis of the Securities & Exchange Commission, which has the police powers. On leaving the White House, Chairman Landis said nothing. Chairman Eccles reiterated the well-known fact that the long rise has been largely a cash affair-a pronouncement which in another Administration might have been taken as a bullish tip straight from the White House. But the official attitude toward the stock-market was characterized in Washington last week as sternly "vigilant...
...funds? Some feared, probably groundlessly, the inevitable turn in the tide of transatlantic gold. Most traders, tacitly admitting the difficulty of gauging even the immediate effects of such involved monetary maneuvers, simply worked on the theory that any effort to ease the bonds of international trade was open to bullish interpretation...