Word: bulls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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John & Sam. Pluming himself on superior financial morality, John Bull fairly screamed his abuse at Uncle Sam. "A calculated breach of contract!" shrilled the Financial Times which added: "The word default has an ugly sound but it is used deliberately with respect to the action taken by the U. S." Bumbled the Tory Morning Post: "It would be difficult to find a parallel for so unblushing and callous a breach of contract. ... It is almost unthinkable that Washington would repudiate the letter and spirit of the gold contracts in these bonds." Mocked the Financial News: "Iowa and the farmers...
Because in Hamburg 100 years ago an impoverished young bull-fiddler had a son born to him by a woman 17 years older than himself, because the lumpish German infant grew up to be Johannes Brahms, musical organizations everywhere this year have been paying court to the memory of one of the world's greatest composers. On his 100th birthday this week Hamburg listened reverently to Brahms's music, placed wreaths before the bust of the hulking, bearded old man at the entrance of its famed Musikhalle. Cincinnati last week heard Brahms music played at its 30th spring...
...Proud Bull-Fiddler Brahms wanted his son to be a musician but such tribute as is being paid this year was far beyond the scope of his imagination. Music. Father Brahms hoped, would earn his son a living. He was set to playing the piano almost as soon as he could toddle. Before he reached his teens he could tootle on a horn, play passably on the violin and 'cello. But to his father's despair he would go on scribbling music when he should have been practicing his scales and learning the dance tunes which would earn...
...Civil War, oldest West Point graduate (Class of 1861), long-time golf partner of John Davison Rockefeller; of old age; in Ormond Beach, Fla. He entered the Civil War a lieutenant, was a 29-year-old major general when it ended. For heroism in the first Battle of Bull Run he got, 32 years later, a Congressional Medal of Honor. Appointed Provisional Governor of Mississippi in 1868, he was sent to the U. S. Senate in 1869, elected Governor in 1873. Reconstruction strife forced him, last Northern Governor of a Southern State, to resign three years later in the face...
Died. Frank Theodore Hulswit, 57, onetime utilities tycoon; when he fell/jumped from his apartment on the fifth floor of Manhattan's Hotel Astor. President of United Light & Power Co. since 1910, he resigned, lost a reputed $10,000,000 when his New York Curb Exchange bull pool in the company's stock collapsed in 1926. Next year he came back as president of American Commonwealths Power Corp., was elected a director of United Light & Power...