Word: gambler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...margin an investor, speculator, or gambler in stocks puts up a fraction of the amount needed to purchase the stock he has bought. The broker puts up the rest of the money, charging the investor, etc., interest on : this balance. The money put up by the investor represents the broker's margin of safety, and if the stock declines in value the investor must put up more money, thus keeping the broker's margin as wide as before...
Concerning the resignation of Cadet Cagle from West Point much has already been said. The moral issues involved have been discussed and Cagle has been denounced for violating army integrity and praised for being a rampant fighter and gambler who could not be held in. It probably all rolls off Cagle's shoulders. Did he ever intend to go in the army...
...fatal room itself with Mr. Stromberg?acted by cinema villain Roy D'Arcy (The Merry Widow) ?lying near death from a gunshot wound. Grouped about him are his henchmen and his beauteous blonde girl-friend Babette Marshall, whose part is taken by the suntanned companion of the late Gambler Rothstein, Inez Norton, a stroke of showmanship calculated to add to the play's veracity. Mr. Stromberg expires after exhorting his minions to "treat her square, treat her square...
...keeps more than the U. S. Judiciary under his alert little eye. Last year, as the Republican candidate for Mayor of New York City, he charged "a loathsome scandal" in the city judiciary, accused a Tammany judge, Magistrate Albert H. Vitale, of having borrowed money from Arnold Rothstein, murdered gambler. Last week Magistrate Vitale found himself removed from the bench because the LaGuardia charge was true...
...JAMES INFIRMARY BLUES and WHEN YOU'RE SMILING (Victor)-The first is a gambler's sad story set to high-stepping jazz; the second, saccharine...