Word: investors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...himself as a superman and soon in his egotism became convinced the Lord had endowed him with a peculiar prescience and ability which raised him into a royally created class, far more blessed by a discriminating and wise Creator. ... It is little to be wondered at if the ordinary investor approached in some trepidation this gorgeous creature, begged for advice and counsel and with gratitude accepted his direction. The poor investor saw only one of God's anointed; but the anointed, none too proud to take any sum from any person upon any representation, thought only of the profits...
...decline began two months ago when Japan went off the gold standard. Last week's drop was the investor's reaction to war. A total of some $390,000,000 worth of Japanese bonds are the major portion of the $451,000,000 U. S. investment in that country. Altogether last week they were worth about 60% of par. Thus Japan's credit was being scrutinized in the U. S. more carefully than at any time in a decade. Prime point is that in all Japan there is only $190,000,000 worth of gold bullion...
Focus of the Senators' interest was the Bull Market and the 1929 Crash, with particular reference to parts played therein by banks and the Reserve. Most of the Committee's findings were ancient history to the investor who had lost his shirt. But bankers throughout the land perused the report carefully because they knew it would serve as a working text for bank legislation yet to be framed by the Committee. Buried under piles of financial statistics were these general conclusions...
Names in the "EZ" classification are listed without comment. According to the Attorney General, one girl was promptly listed "EZ" after her father had declined to become an "investor"' in Tatler...
...individual is the most gravely concerned with these questions it is probably not some hard-pressed railroad president or his worried banker but the man who is reputed to own more railroad securities than anyone else: bush-bearded Arthur Curtiss James. Last week, however, Investor James cast worry from his mind, entered the festive spirit that surrounds an oldtime tradition?the driving- of-the-golden-spike.* With a few blows he drove the spike into a specially-prepared tie. linked his pet road, the Western Pacific, to the Great Northern system...