Word: investments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Loan Bank system. Under this act building & loan associations, co-operative banks, savings banks and insurance companies were to subscribe to the stock of twelve new regional banks at which they could discount their first mortgages on homes worth $20.000 or less. The R. F. C. was authorized to invest, if necessary, up to $125,000,000 in the system. The Hoover idea was that the Government should help mortgage institutions which in turn would pass such assistance along to debt-ridden home owners. Republican campaigners quickly spread the false impression that President Hoover and the U. S. Treasury were...
High up in No. 1 Wall St. are the Manhattan offices of Calvin Bullock, investment banking house. There also are the roomy offices of Calvin Bullock, Denver banker who branched east. Calvin Bullock is unique among large banking houses in that it is a proprietary business; there are no partners, no "& Co." Quiet, slow-spoken Calvin Bullock is the firm of Calvin Bullock. Last week Bank & Banker Calvin Bullock launched a new investment trust, Canadian Investment Fund, Ltd., designed to invest primarily in Canadian industry...
...rapidly than the U. S. Just as Canada boomed less boisterously than the U. S. before 1929, so has it slumped less dolorously since. Banker Bullock also believes that Canada is in a stage of industrial development comparable to the U. S. before the turn of the century, when investment opportunities were lushest. That his new trust may be in on the Canadian know, may garner the fullest harvest for both Canadian and U. S. investors, Banker Bullock has assembled an amazing roster of Canadian potency for his directorate. With him on the board will sit President Arthur Blaikie Purvis...
...engraved stock certificates, then suddenly finding those certificates worthless and themselves out of jobs, was given to the Chicago Daily News by Emma Redell, large Baltimore-born soprano who sails this week to give 30 concerts in Russia on the invitation of the Soviet Government. Soprano Redell did not invest in Samuel Insull's utility corporations but she told a tale which made the News investigate the circumstances and whereabouts of Chicago Civic Opera artists who did. Said she: "Whenever some one would be engaged always there would be a snow-storm of literature telling them how much money...
...their acres, for an offer just made to them to sing at the Scala in Milan. The News neglected to report that Baritone Vanni-Marcoux came off handsomely by selling Insull stocks when they were still high, that careful old Basso Feodor Chaliapin ignored Insull's advice to invest $100,000 in Chicago utilities, bought Government bonds instead...