Word: fronts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bankruptcies became front-page news in New York early in January when an attorney named David Steinhart, receiver and Republican politician, fled, leaving bankruptcy books $50,000 short. Judge Winslow had sponsored his appointment many times. Steinhart was indicted. Officials chased him; disguised in red whiskers, through Canada. Charles Shongood, U. S. auctioneer, was removed from office, indicted for conspiracy and embezzlement. Panicky, the Federal judges in Manhattan switched bankruptcy cases from personal receivers to the American Exchange Irving Trust Co. A grand jury gathered more evidence...
...booze-peddling depot on North Clark Street, masked as a garage of the S. M. C. Cartage Co., where lolled six underworldlings, waiting for their breakfast coffee to cook. A seventh, in overalls, tinkered with a beer vat on a truck. Two of the gang drifted aimlessly into the front office where ink wells stood dusty...
True Heaven (Fox). Generals signing armistices should work fast, should scribble their names as fast as they can, because-what about the firing squads, the fellows waiting for death in front of leveled rifles? The news has to get there in time. Suppose you are an English officer, and you fall in love with a beautiful girl, but when you are made a spy and sent to Germany you find she is a spy too, but on the other side, and she has to choose between you and her flag, and chooses her flag, as you want her to deep...
Iron Man & Velvet Glove (See Front Cover...
Significance. The outstanding development of the week was the fact that, without taking any radical measures, the Federal Reserve Board, aided by front-page publicity given to bearish conversations in Congress and in the Reserve advisory council, succeeded in scaring Wall Street into a liquidation movement. A definite obituary on the bull market might, however, be a little premature. Mysterious despatches from Washington stressed an alleged division of opinion on the Federal Reserve Board and the existence of a minority party opposed to anti-speculative measures...