Word: corner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beaming with pleasure, poking his Fascist yes-men in the ribs. The German statesmen were whisked through streets lined with Carabinieri in full dress, past cheering crowds to the Grand Hotel on the Piazza delle Terme. There was only one untoward incident. A group of German tourists on one corner suddenly bellowed HOCH HITLER! as the cortege passed. At the hotel a frock-coated manager proudly told the Chancellor of Germany that he would have the honor of sleeping in the same room once used by the late John Pierpont Morgan...
...touring car swung around the corner of Second Avenue. In the car were six men. They aimed shotguns and automatics in the general direction of a loafer lounging in front of the Helmar Club, opened fire. The man ducked out of range, fled. Instead of reaching him, the spattering bullets cut down a knot of children. Young, red-headed Frank Scalesi ducked behind his lemonade stand just as a slug smashed his pitcher. Michael Vengalli, 5, was struck in the thigh, the bullet penetrating the base of his spine. He died that night. His brother Salvatore, 7, was knocked sprawling...
...Corners," as every one knows, are forbidden on most civilized stock and commodity exchanges. Not so the "squeeze," which approaches a corner without actually turning it. Last week the corn pit of the Chicago Board of Trade, slumbering in the doldrums of depression, was stirred to humming life by a squeeze worthy of the late great Benjamin P. ("Old Hutch") Hutchinson himself. Thomas Montgomery Howell, a wiry, taciturn La Salle Street grain broker who is picked by many to fill the big shoes left empty when Arthur William Cutten moved up to Winnipeg (TIME, Jan. 26), was the squeezer. Many...
...July contracts fell due at midnight of the next day, had already bid up corn to 68? the day before, now went on to raise it to 72½?-a gain of 14? in less than two days. At that point Trader Howell, well knowing the distinction between a corner and a squeeze, came to terms in private negotiations and released his corn at 72?. The price broke, closed at 68?. Rose the next day to 72½? and stayed there until the end of trading -and of the month...
...punch or two go low, rubbed Walker's bad eye with the heel of his glove, "fished" instead of hitting with his left hand which was hurt early in the fight. He rallied in the last rounds, won the 15th and stood shuffling his feet in his corner while the referee spoke to the judges. There was one vote for a draw, one each for Sharkey and Walker. The decision was a draw...