Word: grouping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...believed until the Stock Exchange issued a public statement. For Richard Whitney was the Depression president of the Stock Exchange, is a brother of Morgan Partner George Whitney. Richard Whitney & Co. had always been known as "the Morgan brokers." It was in behalf of a Morgan banking group that Richard Whitney strode across the floor to U. S. Steel post on a dark day in 1929 to bid $2.05 per share for 25,000 shares of steel -15 points above the market. That spectacular bid temporarily stayed the avalanche and the tall figure of Richard Whitney became the hero...
Partly by reason of their religion Jewish farmers differ from most others. Although they engage in many forms of agriculture (but chiefly poultry and truck farming), they tend to live in groups; for Jewish dietary laws and ritual practices are hard to fulfill in isolation, and ten Jewish men is the smallest permissible group for public worship. With well developed commercial instincts many a Jewish farmer also takes in summer boarders...
...anti-foreign alarmists in general Author Seabrook wags his finger: "You can find more 'parlor reds' per capita in Harvard, Smith, Vassar, Barnard . . . than you can find actual revolutionists among any foreign-language race group in America. . . ., The Melting Pot is a real thing. It boils and bubbles. It gives off a lot of steam and some scum, but what remains is a good conglomerate...
Poetry introduced an extraordinary group of poets to the U. S., from Yeats and T. S. Eliot to Sandburg and Edna St. Vincent Millay. Almost every contemporary English and American poet of distinction appeared in its pages or was involved in its battles. But although readers of A Poet's Life can gain some insight into modern poetry, may pick up minor items of literary information (such as Louis Untermeyer's smug dismissal of Eliot's first poems), they are likely to be left wondering how so much literary excitement could have been made so dull...
Representation on the general committee will be in proportion to the size and importance of any group which agrees to lend its support, it was announced. The executive council will be made up of five men on whose shoulders the management of the affair will fall...