Word: calling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dapper gentlemen, none was more inspired and self-confident than Arnold Rothstein, a sleek Jew inclining to flesh in his late forties. Hotel managers fawned on him, because he owned a hotel himself. Newspaper editors disliked to call him "gambler" when he got into the news. The New York World used to euphemize and call him an "operator," knowing well that many another citizen gambled as often though perhaps not so daringly as Rothstein. He won a few hundred "grand" on this year's World's Series-a contest which he was said to have "fixed...
...hole. Necessarily, he was slow about taking up his IOU's. The trouble was, he had been slow that way before. His tongue could be as sharp in debt as it could be smooth in velvet. The creditors grew restive. They persuaded George McManus, whom Rothstein trusted, to call him over for a "creditors' meeting" one evening last month. Rothstein got the call in the little restaurant and started over to the Park Central Hotel where McManus was registered as "George Richards," in Room...
...having illness suggestive of the above are urged to report to the Medical Adviser at Wadsworth House or to send for him to call upon them in order that preventive measures may promptly taken. This is urged particularly in the case of men returning to Cambridge from places where Influenza is now epidemic...
...winter season will open officially with a call for all candidates for both Freshman and University teams to meet in the Soldiers Field locker building on Thursday, January 3 at 3 o'clock. Coach E. L. Farrell, when questioned by a CRIMSON reporter yesterday, declared that the outlook for a successful winter season was very good, but that he hoped the squad would be considerably increased after the recess, for with the facilities the University now has for winter track both on the boards and in the cages, a large group of men may be accommodated...
What caused the collapse? The immediate inciting force appears to have been "tight" money. Loans to brokers had advanced to $5,394,590,000. Call money had climbed higher and higher until it reached 12%. At this point, apparently, the market, so long inflated, suddenly realized its unsound condition. Once the decline had begun, there was nothing to stop it. Indeed, as it continued, forced selling by many small operators with dwindling margins accelerated its fall...