Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tennessean, the man who tried to kidnap the Kaiser from Holland as a Christmas present for President Wilson; and Rogers Clark ("Bank On the South") Caldwell, high-flying Tennessee financier and promoter. Last November Lea-Caldwell enterprises, which were beginning to take the whole South for their province, went crashing down into the dust of Depression (TIME, Nov. 24). Last week it seemed likely that their financial crash would rock Governor Horton, their friend and ally, down into political ruin...
...year after the 1929 stockmarket crash, the Lea-Caldwell enterprises tottered along, then suddenly collapsed. Their banks went under one after another, stripping thousands and thousands of citizens in and out of Tennessee of their deposits. Three bank officials committed suicide. Lea-Caldwell newspapers were thrown into receivership and Messrs. Lea and Caldwell were indicted in State and Federal courts...
...Bishop's contemplation of the weather was interrupted by a crash as the Livonia struck a shoal. Soon a heavy squall smote the stranded ship. The Bishop hurriedly launched his lifeboats, took all hands aboard, rowed for tiny, deserted Plana Cay. In ten minutes the Livonia had sunk...
...unadorned narrative style it sets forth a good portrait of a Customers' Man of the Coolidge era. Before publication, the Board of Governors of the New York Stock Exchange had pamphlet copies privately printed for their own reading. To them the subject is especially interesting, for since the Crash of 1929 the Exchange has done much to lessen the evils of which Mr. Sparkes writes. Customers' Man Robert Loomis had a pleasing personality and was an excellent barytone. He stopped his music studies to work in Wall Street when some such strategy was demanded in order to appease...
...heavier-than-air phase, too, of Britain's military aviation is suffering evil days. Last fortnight brought the death of famed speed flyer Flight Lieut. Henry Richard Danvers Waghorn, 41st pilot of the Royal Air Force to die by crash since the first of the year. In London last week the Marquess of Donegall charged that Lieut. Waghorn and many another R. A. F. flyer would be alive today but for the "obsolete" type of parachute issued by the Air Ministry. This 'chute, he said, is not guaranteed to open under 800 or 1,000 ft. But Lord...