Word: cobden
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WILLIAM JAMES HALL Cobden...
...Breese, an Illinois prairie lawyer who later became U.S. Senator. Not till 16 years later did Senator Stephen A. Douglas win a grant of 2,595,600 acres from the Government-the first to any railroad-and persuade Eastern and British financiers (including Gladstone, Stephen Cunard and Economist Richard Cobden) to put up $9,000,000 to construct a 705-mile "Y"-shaped road. It stretched north from Cairo, and forked to East Dubuque and Chicago...
...fattest in its history, he plunked out the first common dividend ($3) since 1931. As a result, the common stock has soared from its 1941 low of $4.25 to $72.75 last week. This week, 53-year-old President Johnston was just as confident about the Main Line as Investor Cobden had been in the Panic of 1857. "That the stock will go up again ... I have no doubt," wrote Cobden to a friend. "Nothing but an earthquake or some other convulsion of nature can impair the value ... of the richest soil of the world...
Brilliantly in Greek. Some people maintain that Manchester was the only place where Harold Laski could have been born. Manchester had nursed the industrial revolution and produced the "Manchester school" of laissez-faire liberals e.g., John Bright, Jeremy Bentham, Richard Cobden. State Planner Harold Laski, the argument went, was History's revenge on the city of Manchester...