Word: bulls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after New York City's special mayoralty election it was announced that Acting Mayor Joseph Vincent ("Holy Joe") McKee, no candidate, had received some 137,000 "protest" votes, to the alarmed dismay of Tammany Hall and its bull-jowled nominee for Mayor, John Patrick ("Potatoes") O'Brien. To cast a McKee vote citizens had to write his name in on voting machines-a process hampered by ignorance, lack of pencils and the hostility of Tammany election officials...
...Divorce (libretto by Dwight Taylor; words & music by Cole Porter; Dwight Deere Wiman, producer). For this bright little musicomedy Composer Porter (The New Yorkers), whom Yalemen remember as the author of "Bulldog, Bull-dog," has written some of his most beguiling melodies and lyrics. Sample...
...family as superintendent of Louisiana Military Academy. He liked the South, Southerners liked him. Though he was no abolitionist, and thought war between the States "all folly, madness, a crime against civilization," he refused a Southern command, went North to enlist. A colonel at the tragi-comedy of Bull Run, he chevied his men so relentlessly they cursed him but kept better discipline than most. His bad-tempered sternness got him the name of "Old Pills"; it was a long time before his men began calling him "Uncle Billy." In the Army of the Tennessee his organizing talents got results...
...Bull Cutten, who has been an independent trader for 26 years and has never lost as much money as he has made, was ostensibly writing an autobiographical narrative, "The Story of a Speculator." The first of three installments told of his boyhood in Guelph, Ont. his going to Chicago, his first contacts with the Pit and how he learned to "sweat blood" when prices moved against him. But woven through the story was his defense of speculation, his malediction of all regulations that impede...
...taxes which make "scalping" (small, quick trading) difficult, and the rule that all transactions of over 500.000 bu. must be reported. When Farm Board operations were at their height many speculators gave up trading in the Pit because prices were no longer subject to natural movements. Bull Cutten had his first experience with regulation in 1926. He had bought tremendous amounts of wheat and felt that "events were justifying the judgment of conditions I had formed months before when I had taken my position. By every right of commerce I was entitled to a profit on my transaction...