Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...February 1929, Mr. Huston had a stock margin account, under another name, with the Manhattan brokerage firm of Blyth & Bonner. He was $19.381 short. From Fred H. Haggerson, head of Union Carbide, he urgently solicited $22,000 on the plea that it was necessary to keep his Muscle Shoals lobby alive. He put this sum into his stock margin account. In June he obtained from Union Carbide another "contribution" of $14,100 which also went to Blyth & Bonner, as margin for the purchase of $46,000 worth of stocks, from which he secured a profit of $526. Not until...
...Lyceum of Greek Ladies have a very personal reason for performing their old mysteries for the returning Ahepans. The 800 Greek bachelors were returning to Greece with the firm intention of getting married. They were going back to find 800 docile, plump Greek maidens, to bring back to the U. S. with them again. They sought brides who would not make fun of their broken English, who would stay at home and mind the fruit store and raise plenty of children, who knew how to cook lamb kidneys with pilau. Many had already arranged their betrothals. As the Saturnia steamed...
...curriculum according to strict fundamentalist standards. The idea, if carried out, contains many possibilities, not only for Dayton's youth, but for all other colleges as well. In this day of scientific specialization and general stiffening of course requirements, the undergraduate is kept entirely too busy. If a firm belief in the principles of fundamentalism were to spread in University circles, college courses would easily and quickly become simplified and the student would have leisure to sit back and consider the more eternal verities. The amount of time and energy saved in the Anthropology Department would alone make...
Although a woman partner of a firm is rare, Wail Street and Women have recently become more familiar. For the most part, Wall Street Women occupy positions as customers women, bond specialists, contact getters, sometimes astrologers. Few have gone higher, fewer remained higher. Last week grief came to a woman who claims to have been the first to enter the brokerage business...
Miss Margaret E. McCann, 49, started her own firm in 1924, dealing in securities but not as a member of any exchange. In September 1928, five grand larceny indictments were returned against her. Last week, convicted, she faced a sentence of five to ten years. When the prosecutor told the jury that "on her own testimony Miss McCann is a thief.' she jumped up and cried "How dare you?': Later she explained to a friend: "I think the jury misunderstood the whole thing. I was a victim of circumstances. What I did was to take money from some...