Word: bulls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unlike Uncle Sam who represents the whole U. S., John Bull who is Britain, Marianne does not represent all France, but only the Republic. Every Frenchman knows this. Few of them know just why she bears her name. A learned French publication is the I. D. C., L'Intermédiare des Chercheurs. On the why & wherefore of the name Marianne it has published the following notes...
Reforms. Senator Glass's bill had its roots in the collapse of the Coolidge bull market. As he saw it, Federal Reserve credit had been perverted from legitimate commercial enterprises to the wildest stock speculation in history. As sponsor for the Federal Reserve, he felt it his legislative duty to see that such a thing could not happen again. The bill that he wrote and the Senate passed provided that...
...much ever happens in Chamberlain, especially since old (90 years) Charles Morey Lockwood left for the Soldiers' Home at Minneapolis, Minn. where he could find some "rough, tough pinochle players." He believes himself the last northwesterner alive who ran away from the First Battle of Bull Run (July 21, 1861). On the anniversary he tipples from a bottle of burgundy kept in a bank safe...
...Stock Exchange, hundreds of brokers got the news simultaneously from their office tickers. They stared blankly, incredulously at each other. Trading slacked off uncertainly with falling prices. The day closed with a brief little rally-a farewell salute to the man whose name has been given to the greatest bull market in history...
...about it." His New Winton may be Kent, Conn, (where he went to school for six years) but he has left Kent School out of his picture. Nor has he recognizably drawn 'one of Kent's saltiest characters-as individual, in his way, as Cozzens' Dr. Bull-Kent School's famed headmaster, Father Frederick Sill. Tall, thin, startled-looking, with thick black eyebrows and black hair. Author Cozzens could pass as much younger than his 29 years. No novice at his trade, he has free lanced since his undergraduate days at Kent. The Last Adam...