Word: gay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opinion around until it cried for Democracy there has never been anything like the original French Revolution. Last week in many lands grave heads were wondering what plain Jean Frenchman, a million strong, may now be starting with his spontaneous and uncontrolled strikes (TIME, June 8, et seq.), his gay singing of Red songs in the anxious streets of Paris, his candid nose-thumbing, half amused and half contemptuous, at new Premier Blum of the Third Republic...
President Charles Richard Gay of New York Stock Exchange D.Sc. Econ...
Striving vainly to achieve a tone of gay sophistication, Author Caldwell succeeds only in belaboring the reader with a yarn undistinguished in conception, inept in execution...
...York Curb Exchange, which accounts for 9%. The remaining 5% of the business done on registered exchanges is shared by 19 little stockmarkets throughout the land. The presidents of these little exchanges are just as concerned about their problems as the New York Stock Exchange's Charles Richard Gay or the Curb's Fred C. Moffatt. In Cleveland last week they complained bitterly about present high margin requirements (55%) which, they feel, are driving speculators to foreign markets or into other fields like real estate or commodities. Soothing speeches from SEChairman James McCauley Landis and other Federal market...
Excepting a period when he was President of the New York Evening Post, 1920-23, Professor Gay has been a Harvard faculty member since 1902. As first Dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration 1908-1919, Professor Gay sponsored many pioneer features in the new field of university business education, among them the first comprehensive program of business research in the United States, involving the collection and analysis of figures showing the margins, expenses, and profits of retail and wholesale business. As Professor of Economic History, since 1924, he has studied extensively the nature and results...