Word: francisco
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Captain Dollar plans a celebration of his own. He decided that when the President Polk got to San Francisco he would go on board with his wife, look the crew over, shake hands with the passengers, eat dinner on board. There have been ceremonies like this in the past and after dinner there have been speeches in which Captain Dollar's officials have expressed the things the officials of any successful man usually express in his presence when there is some kind of an anniversary. But possibly, into that dinner on the President Polk, there will come, as there...
...front page a box headed, "Who Robert Dollar Is." Under this caption were listed his formal titles and offices-President Dollar Steamship Company, Robert Dollar Company, Admiral Oriental Company, Dollar Portland Lumber Company, etc. etc., Director of the American International Corporation, Anglo-London and Paris Bank, San Francisco Savings Bank. Dollar ships, Dollar wood, Dollar banks, Dollar offices in eastern cities the smooth plate-glass windows of which are never molested even when yellow men demonstrate with sabotage the unpopularity of foreign capital. Listed, these things suggest but fail to explain Robert Dollar's position in U. S. industry...
When reporters go to Captain Dollar about anything they always end by asking him about his past and always, sitting behind his pale oak desk in the Robert Dollar Building in San Francisco, he answers questions in a deep, dry, old man's voice interrupting himself to get into his favorite subject, China. And then, seeing the pencils stop moving, he remembers the story. "Why don't you put in something about my grandfather? He had a ship himself, you know. Oh, yes, a great big ship. It sank...
...years ago; he wears a heavy watch-chain. But Captain Dollar is spryer than the old traders who wore his kind of coat and watch-chain. He lives at San Rafael and commutes. He leaves home at seven, gets to his desk at 8:45. Crossing San Francisco Bay in the ferry he swaps stories with the deckhands. Once he did not get down on time. The ferry waited...
Last week was perhaps the most remarkable speculative week in modern history of the New York Stock Exchange. Speculative, because there were no political or geological events like the declaration of War in 1914, or the San Francisco earthquake of 1906. Modern, because in olden days (up to 1907), the trading was small in volume and almost entirely between professional speculators, consequently subject to more sudden and violent whims than the trading of today, which affects the fortune of perhaps 7,000,000 U. S. security owners...