Word: fours
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...outlet of approximately three billion persons annually passing up and down Woolworth aisles; people who had come not just to look but to spend. Last year they spent $287,000,000. The proposition was propounded to the executives. This time there were no deaf ears, little hesitancy. Four magazines, McNelis-Weir executed, will be sold in Woolworth stores starting with October issues. Incomplete though details were last week, with author-names still unannounced, with not even the names of the magazines yet ready for publication, some facts concerning the magazines were made known...
...which, in the immediate situation means to restrain the use of Federal Reserve credit facilities in aid of the growth of speculative credit." For months no more was heard. Brokers and speculators forgot. Last week when the Federal Reserve Board went into a conference, expected to last three or four days, few noticed it and fewer guessed the purpose...
Just six weeks after Clarke Bros., private bankers, failed in Manhattan (TIME. July 22), the four partners appeared before this double court, pleaded guilty, were sentenced. James Rae Clarke, senior partner, assumed full responsibility for the crash. He was sentenced by the Federal Judge to eight years in the overcrowded Atlanta penitentiary for using the mails to defraud and for conspiracy. Philip L. Clarke, John R. Bouker and Hudson Clarke Jr. each received a sentence of one year, one day. The state judge imposed the same penalties but suspended sentence declaring that the Federal sentences served the cause of justice...
Angry depositors, just told by the receiver that they might eventually receive 20? instead of 5? or 10? on the dollar, added four more items to the sum of what happens to bad bankers. Each item was an egg thrown at the three manacled convicts on their way to jail. One egg smashed on James Rae Clarke's straw...
...Government started anti-trust suits against the four national meat packers-Armour & Co., Swift & Co., Wilson & Co., Cudahy Packing Co. There was no trial, for the packers went into court and consented to having a decree issued forbidding them to deal in other products than meat and its derivatives, likewise forbidding them to establish retail stores. In nine years, two major attempts have been made to have the decree rescinded. The U. S. Supreme Court in all its venerability each time reaffirmed the decree...