Word: bulls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When Major General Fitz-John Porter was arraigned for disobeying orders at the Second Battle of Bull Run. Last notable courtmartial in all the services was that of Col. William Mitchell in 1925 for criticizing the Air Service. Found guilty, suspended, he resigned...
Bronson Cutting of New Mexico, who is an Easterner by birth and education (Groton, Harvard), a Westerner by political preference. A wealthy ex-Bull Mooser, he helps finance other Insurgents' campaigns...
Always individualistic in his political preferences, Senator Borah refused to follow Roosevelt into the Bull Moose Party though he thought Taft had stolen the Republican nomination. Likewise he let La Follette go off by himself as the Progressive presidential nominee. President Coolidge once summoned Borah to the White House, offered him a "place on the ticket." The Senator is said to have asked: "Which place...
...Guelph, Ontario, 61 years ago was horn Arthur William Cutten, Chicago's big stock & commodity bull. Notoriously unschooled in taking profits, he has not been very active since the Crash. Last week he made news by heading back toward his native Canada. He moved one branch of his business from Chicago to Winnipeg, from the Board of Trade to the Winnipeg Grain Exchange...
...Trade. Last week, buying a seat on the Winnipeg exchange for $12,600, he repeated this charge, also protested that the Board of Trade has many rules hurting buyers. Winnipeg, said he, "is the only free market on the continent." Elated, Winnipeg traders hoped other big grainmen would follow Bull Cutten. They arranged a demonstration for his arrival. Members of the Chicago Board of Trade last week gloomily observed that their seats now sell at $9,000 against a high of $62,000 in 1929; that the securities division averages only 6,600 shares a day, that corn occupies...