Word: corner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...walks across the dinner table carrying a heaping dish. ("See if you can't take those Brussels sprouts over to Mrs. Dooley without stepping in Papa's plate again!") When his parents displease him he retires to a fully furnished packing-box stockade in the corner of a room, named "Snitzy Arms." ("So you're not living with us any more!") When Mamma loses Philbert in a department store she finds him in the rattrap department, inside a trap. When she loses him at a cinema theatre, the usher finds Philbert stuck to the chewing gum under...
...down before the House of Morgan on the corner of Broad and Wall Streets, Manhattan, marched a big delegation of pacifist picketers one day last week. They were there, according to their placards, to damn the "huge profits of Morgan and his U. S. Steel Corporation." In the process of damning they completely failed to recognize Mr. Morgan in the flesh as the banker came & went for lunch. Day before, it was learned that Mr. Morgan had dipped into his art collection for $1,500,000 in ready cash to help his executors settle his estate, and U. S. Steel...
Undaunted was the blond, chunky Governor, who wants to socialize every bank, factory and utility in his flat State. Within a few weeks his legal henchmen turned up in the little town of Moorhead, in the northwest corner of Minnesota where Farmer-Labor strength is great. Moorhead is the Clay County seat, and the Olson prosecutors went out to see Farmer Bosshard, who was one of the 25 Banco stock-holders in the vicinity. On the basis of his complaint, without waiting for the formality of an indictment, a district judge ordered Banco's President J. Cameron Thomson...
...omission and commission of the board of governors of the New York Coffee & Sugar Exchange. . . . Practically without exception my firm and clients were not net short of sugar, but were short of December against other sugar that could not be delivered. . . . The cause of complaint was the technical corner which existed in the midst of plenty...
...Thursday, May 9, 1901, a young lumber merchant from Maine named Edward Allen Pierce went to work in Wall Street as a brokers' clerk at A. A. Housman & Co. That day was historic: by noon Wall Street had been thrown into a panic by the Northern Pacific corner. Broker Pierce learned to work twelve hours a day, still does. Elected a partner in 1909, he served his firm faithfully but unspectacularly for 18 years. Then, on Jan. 1, 1927, he announced the formation of E. A. Pierce & Co. to take over the business of Housman & Co. and six brokerage...