Word: dows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wall Street's reaction to events in Cleveland last week could hardly be called a Landon boom. The Dow-Jones industrial stock averages rose 3½ points to 154, utility averages about a point to 32, rail averages less than a point to 46½. Credit for even these gains had to be divided with a big batch of favorable business items, particularly in retail trade, which had been rolling at the best levels since 1930 and was ready-set for distribution of the Bonus, a $1,900,000,000 shot in the retail...
...Congress' banquet there were further alarms. President S. Wells Utley of Detroit Steel Casting Co. prophesied: "This coming campaign ... is one of the great decisive battles of the human race, and upon it hangs the future of our civilization. . . ." President Alex Dow of Detroit Edison Co. rambled through the question of the relations of women with business. The program closed on a foreboding note. Mme Alexandrine Cantacuzene, granddaughter of Ulysses S. Grant, talked on "Property Confiscation under a Revolutionary Government...
...Jones has a particularly warm feeling for Manufacturers Trust because President Harvey Dow Gibson was the first big Manhattan banker to accept RFC money when Mr. Jones was staging his great campaign to build up the capital of the nation's banks...
...Advocate announced yesterday the election to its Literary Board of the following four men: Henry P. Coolidge '37, of Boston; Hume Dow '38, of New York City; James C. Higgins, Jr. '38, of Winthrop; and Alvah W. Sulloway '38, of Concord, New Hampshire...
...humorous incidents have been laid so long in lavender that they have mostly lost their tang; but those who can turn the clock back in order to laugh might enjoy the tale about the young doctor who cupped the Negro wench's sternum; the anecdotes about Lorenzo ("Cosmopolite") Dow, pioneer of Southern Methodism; Mike Fink's misadventures with the Deacon's bull; the Carolina mother's advice to her departing son: "Never tell a lie, nor take what is not your own, nor sue anybody for slander or assault & battery. Always settle them cases yourself...