Word: deliverance
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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"I am happy that there is a Stalin and that he will continue to lead the country!" cried Prisoner Sergei Mrachkovsky, gilding the lily. Even this was capped by Prisoner Kamenev whose second and final lecture at the trial was a deliberate incitement to Communists abroad to go and assassinate...
Squeezes. In the normal course of hedging operations the cotton merchant sells futures contracts short, but unlike the speculator he actually owns an equivalent amount of real cotton. As one contract matures, say July, he switches into another, say October, to keep his insurance in force. This switching makes the...
Having been pinched occasionally himself, Will Clayton set out in the 1920's to change this rule. His method was to do his own squeezing but to do it so often, so fast and so hard, that cotton men would rise in arms, force the Exchange to modify the...
The German people could not know that Charles Augustus Lindbergh was coming to them with high seriousness to deliver a great message last week. In fact they could not know when he was coming, if at all. The Colonel had made his usual request for privacy and for the first...
Meanwhile the Republicans had not been idle. Last month The Lord's Day Alliance, in semi-annual meeting in Manhattan, plumped for Presidential Nominee Landon because he had declined to deliver a political speech on Sunday; for Vice Presidential Nominee Knox because he declared he would not publish his...