Word: bulls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vice-Chancellor von Papen. Instead he presided over secret Cabinet negotiations in which von Papen, cool and supercilious, let his speech be attacked and defended by the Chancellor's hottest Left and Right fanatics, notably club-footed Minister of Propaganda & Public Enlightenment Dr. Paul Josef Goebbels and roaring, bull-necked General Hermann Wilhelm Göing, Premier of Prussia...
...warmed up to a commodity. Early in Depression when all other prices were melting, the hard-eyed Manhattan Irishman turned to the one thing that was bound to rise-gold. In his day Ben Smith had been a gold mucker, an automobile salesman, an ambulance driver. He helped bull Alaska Juneau from $3.50 per share to $20, Pioneer from $2.25 to $7. Once he flew to Alaska to inspect the Juneau properties, bought a gold brick worth $25,000. Back on the Exchange floor he wanted to put the brick on top of the Juneau post but his good friend...
...barley, rye and hay were correspondingly about 45% of normal. In spite of the week's rains, wheat was still breaking around $1 on the Chicago Board of Trade and Speculator Jesse L. Livermore was reported to be emerging from his fourth bankruptcy on the crest of the bull market...
...twitted the Conservative Party for "following the ideals of Disraeli, an Italian Jew,''- lambasted British Socialists (i. e. Laborites) for their "loyalty to Karl Marx, a German Jew" and polished off the Liberal Party by referring sarcastically to one of its Jewish leaders as "that staunch John Bull, Sir Herbert Samuel!" "Down with Mosley!" cried several hecklers as fresh fights, this time with razors, began. Sir Oswald himself directed part of the cleanup. Then, rushing back to his microphones, he cried...
...treaty with the U. S. was in the making. But as Speaker Santiago Alba's eye swept the benches, he goggled. The benches were nearly deserted, Government and Opposition. "Where are they all?'' he asked. A page boy told him they had all gone to a bull fight in honor of the contestants in the "Miss Spain" beauty contest. The Speaker telephoned the bull ring to ask when the party would be over. Late that night the Deputies straggled into the Cortes, rapidly voted a 15% increase in freight rates, annulled an old law forbidding farm workers...