Word: chasing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...institutional stock-buyers) was not selling, was buying (TIME, Nov. 4). Others quickly followed his lead. From Washington Dr. Julius Klein, Assistant Secretary of Commerce, radioed to the nation that its business was sound, that only 4% of U. S. families were affected by the break. Others were Stuart Chase and Irving Fisher, famed economists, Paul Shoup of the Southern Pacific, Bowman Gray of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., Luther Blake of Standard Statistics Co., Walter P. Chrysler, Roy A. Hunt of Aluminum Co. of America, Matthew C. Brush, Walter S. Gifford of American Telephone and Telegraph...
First National $464,000,000 Chase National...
...House of Morgan. Although an excited Hearst reporter would have it that the Head of the House was present, actually, John Pierpont Morgan was in Europe. It was Partner Thomas W. Lament with whom conferred Charles E. Mitchell, National City Bank; William C. Potter, Guaranty Trust; Albert H. Wiggin, Chase National Bank; Seward Prosser, Bankers Trust. These men controlled resources of more than $6,000,000,000. They .met briefly; they issued no formal statement. But to newsmen, Mr. Lamont remarked that brokerage houses were in excellent condition, that the liquidation appeared technical rather than fundamental. He also conveyed, without...
...Macauley, president of the Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada (one of the largest of institutional stock-buyers) : "The present crisis in the stock market squeezes out inflation caused by speculation, and we have taken opportunity largely to increase our holdings, and we are still buying." Said Chase National's Albert Wiggin: "None of the corporations or institutions I am connected with is selling stocks at this time. We are buying." President Hoover said that U. S. Industry was on a sound basis. The banking group also met again Monday evening and on Tuesday was again quoted as standing...
...Chicago, 52 civil service aspirants appeared at City Hall where they undressed, were measured, answered questions on law, diplomacy, U. S. history, the number of dogs in Chicago. This procedure eliminated all but 21 who were sent into another room, made to chase imaginary dogs in a hypothetical back yard. One Philip Keafta, who had chinned himself 45 times, held his breath 45 seconds, ran about the room, tripped on a taut wire hazard, fell and broke his ankle. He was qualified, however, and when he emerges from the hospital will, be s City Dog Catcher, salary...