Word: holde
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week the Southwestern wheat harvest was clogging Gulf ports. Kansas farmers were dumping their crops on the market. At Galveston a rail embargo had been declared. "HOLD YOUR WHEAT!" cried the Federal Farm Board in Washington as the fear grew that the lake ports would next be stuffed with an excessive harvest. Said Chairman Legge: "It seems unfortunate to crowd wheat on the market faster than existing facilities can handle it, resulting in cash prices much lower than contract prices for future delivery...
...charged that his crime was worse than that of Loeb and Leopold, that he was unregenerate, that in his cell he had skinned alive a kitten. From jail Pomeroy hired a lawyer, filed a $5,000 libel, was awarded damages of $1 which he never collected, preferring to hold the court order for payment as a "vindication." In his cell he learned several languages, wrote poetry, was called "Grandpa" by other convicts. In 1923 he was supposed to have speculated by mail in the stock market, plunging on Moon Motors, Ventura Oil. When he left jail last week, he carried...
Reported by Police Commissioner Van Dine: 1) it was a hold-up and not a murder plot; 2) Since the shooting occurred in Neptune City it was beyond his jurisdiction...
...C.E.R. under the Sino-Russian Treaty of 1924. If the treaty rights of any nation ?even Bolshevik Russia?are not sacred in China, then the treaty prerogatives of other nations are clearly menaced. The Powers in order to uphold their own rights (such as Japan's hold on the South Manchurian Railway) were obliged last week to uphold Moscow's rights...
Shenandoah Corp. was broadly empowered to "buy, sell, trade in and hold stocks and securities of any kind . . . participate in syndicates and underwritings . . . exercise such other of its charter powers as its Board of Directors may from time to time determine." The Board thus broadly trusted contained great names, One was Goldman Sachs & Co., potent financiers. Another was Harrison Williams, potent utility man. After the House of Morgan has taken its bow as First in Finance, it is questionable whether any other banking house, from the standpoint of present and recent activity, much outranks Goldman Sachs. As for Mr. Williams...