Word: buying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...times such "business" as to take over securities at 100, send them to 130 by the sheer weight of the Rothschild name, sell out next day at a profit of 30, then depress the securities to 70 by announcing the securities had been abandoned by the Rothschilds, and finally buy them back with a total profit of 60% on the whole manipulation...
...loyalty of such graduates is a better fire insurance than any a college could possibly buy, and all such benefactors, past and present, deserve a better memorial than the presence of an occasional dusty book on the more esoteric shelves of Widener; the new association, besides bringing mutual pleasure to the members, is thus making a graceful, if tardy, acknowledgment of Harvard's debt to John Barnard...
Chesapeake & Ohio (controlled by the Van Sweringens and their Nickel Plate R. R.) voted $59,502,400 to buy control of the Pere Marquette (now controlled by Van Sweringens) and the Erie (now controlled by Van Sweringens with the aid of George F. Baker...
...later, in Wooster, Ohio. Denied extensive education, they sold newspapers, saved, moved to Cleveland, worked as office boys, saved more. Borrowing, they purchased a wooded tract near Cleveland, pronounced it the future residence district. Borrowing more, they made their land accessible by rapid transit, bought more land. They still buy. Twelve square miles of residence property (homes worth $25,000 or more) have been or are being developed through their office. Their practice in talking sparingly, pointedly with Cleveland bankers has made it easier for them when they venture to New York. Neither has married. When not on their private...
...college fraternities are valuable institutions. Volumes more have been written to show that they are bad. A university president daring to come out flatly on college fraternities speaks more than volumes. Last week, President Max Mason of the University of Chicago spoke out in meeting: "If a fellow should buy a book in a course which he is not taking and should go back to his fraternity room, read it and think about it, he would be judged a queer fellow. And probably he would be. Scholarship today seems to be an affair for the shut-ins and queer fellows...