Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many and substantial. John Wesley is one who, after Yale (1915), made really good in Wall Street as a leading partner of C. D. Barney & Co. He cashed in on marketing Winston-Salem's R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camel) stock. Relatively, he survived the 1929 crash better than most Wall Streeters. He kept in touch with North Carolina politics and his old friend Democrat Max Gardner (Governor...
...morning of September 29, 1938, a Benld housewife, Mrs. Carl Crum, was working in her yard. Suddenly she was transfixed by a roar and a crash which led her to think that an airplane had fallen nearby. She peered in vain for smoke, wreckage, damage. Mr. McCain came home later to find that a celestial visitor had made a three-point landing on his property, about 50 feet from where Mrs. Crum was standing...
...periwigged British bar viewed with interest the unprecedented decision reached in the Manchester Assizes in the case of Smith v. Hall & Pickles. For her fright, Mrs. Smith won ?2,500, assessed against Hall & Pickles and Mr. Cunliffe of Droylsden, since both were found equally responsible for the motor crash. Unless the decision is upset on appeal, the future may well see frightened British bystanders by the hundreds seeking nerve balm after every motor bump in Britain...
...Samuel Insull Jr., who lost most of his utility officerships in his father's colossal crash, resigned the last one-a $51,000-a-year job as assistant to Chairman James Simpson of Commonwealth Edison Co.- in order to make more money at insurance brokerage and settle his remaining $300,000 in debts...
...English until he was ten, worked his way through high school and Wall Street to found his own firm in 1922. His first suspension was the result of overexpansion nipped by depression. Broker Sisto, good friend of Benito Mussolini, was in Italy visiting his many clients there when the crash came. He sped home, quickly arranged to pay his creditors 50? on the dollar, made up the balance with shares in Sisto Financial Corp., his personal investment trust...