Word: investments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blood-&-bullets stage. As one remedy for revolution Arkansas' Joseph Taylor Robinson, leather-lunged Democratic Senate leader, last week produced a 25-page bill to relieve mortgage-ridden farmers. If the revolutionaries could be bought off with cash, the conservative lawyer from Little Rock was ready to invest $1,500,000,000 for civil peace...
Various other Washington letters have come and gone. Some were frankly "tipster services," flashing advice to clients to invest this way or that on the basis of legislative acts or guesses. Others are simply news letters on a smaller scale than the big three. McClure Newspaper Syndicate issues a confidential collection of slangy jottings called "The National Whirligig-News Behind the News" by Reporter Paul Mallon. W. F. Ardis, one-time associate of Whaley-Eaton, is in business for himself. One which has disappeared was called Federal Trade Information Service. Countless are bulletins published by various trade lobbies, to post...
Then the Brothers Moss-Mike (not Michael) and Washington Irving-worked their way into the good graces of the Brothers Vaccaro. The Mosses ran a small insurance agency inherited from their father. Mike Moss persuaded the Vaccaros to invest their millions in things other than bananas. They bought the famed Grunewald Hotel, paying for it with Liberty Bonds dug out of a safety deposit box. They rebuilt it as the Roosevelt, "biggest hotel in the Deep South." Mike Moss, a tun-bellied man with a tiny bald head, was made manager. The Vaccaros backed Union Indemnity with slender, bespectacled, drawling...
Greek citizens who did not invest in Insull securities in the past may have a chance to do so in the future. United Pressman Anthony Kedras reported from Athens last week that Mr. Insull was ready to confer with a group of fascinated Greek bankers anxious to exploit Greek railroads, draining projects, electric concerns in the Insull manner...
That was in 1929 and Mr. Young gladly subscribed for some stock. He never looked at the company's balance sheets "not because I deal carelessly with invest ments but because it would have made no difference with this particular investment. I could not have sold at any time during that period without incurring Mr. Insull's displeasure." In December 1931, Mr. Insull asked General Electric for a $2,000,000 loan and received it. "The directors all knew that Mr. Insull had heavy obligations." said Mr. Young. "And I do not think they were surprised when...