Word: francises
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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To study the faces of Francis W. Rickett and Bernard E. Smith (see cuts) is to study two of the world's best poker faces. These famed international operators in oil, gold mines, concessions of all sorts, shaky currencies and everything of a speculative and spectacular nature last week...
At Addis Ababa smart Emperor Haile Selassie sold to Francis W. Rickett a concession covering oil exploitation rights in almost the whole kingdom. This Mr. Rickett offered in a quick turnover to Standard Vacuum Oil Co., and at the time many Europeans believed this deal (which ultimately fell through) would...
Ethiopia (TIME, Sept. 9, 1935, et seq.). A typical Ben Smith achievement was his handling of the J. I. Case Co. stock when it tumbled during the Hoover Depression. He kept selling J. I. Case short until he had made huge gains, sloganizing nervous Wall Street at this time with...
Died. Reginald Francis Sedgley, 61, English-born gunsmith and firearms inventor; of heart disease; in Philadelphia. In 1936 he admitted to the Senate Special Committee on Investigation of the Munitions Industry that he had bought machine guns from the U. S. Army for 12$ apiece, reconditioned them, sold them to...
Hercules has $131,000,000 worth of insurance in force. In Chicago, however, the first financial reaction to the sale was not as an insurance deal but as a banking deal. For La Salle Street was thinking of the 15,000 shares of Continental Bank stock in the Hercules treasury...