Word: journalism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...personnel of the deliberating group included assorted college presidents, a Columbia, S. C. lawyer, two minor judges, a C. I. O. organizer, an A. F. of L. delegate, Publisher Barry Bingham of the Louisville Courier-Journal, a representative of the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union. Southern business was represented by a lumber man from Picayune, Miss., a Birmingham banker, an aviation-company official from Dallas, a Virginia utility man, a Ken tucky varnish maker, and President J. Skottowe Wannamaker of the American Cotton Association...
...primarily a power project. It was notable also in that TVA wholesale rates are 60% as high as private power rates, indicating that with a similar capital reduction private utilities could undersell TVA. "One of the most interesting angles of the allocation report," observed the Wall Street Journal, "is the flat assumption that the market will be obtained for all the power in calculating the earning power of the system. The only way they can do that, at present, of course, is to take the business away from the private utilities...
...Catholicism. Eventually, as the result of persecutions by her onetime friends, she fled Manhattan, went to Baltimore to open the first Catholic parochial school, then to Emmitsburg, Md. to conduct the first American convent for the Sisters of Charity. Throughout her short life Mother Seton kept up a journal and a voluminous correspondence, with a remarkable literary quality which Author Feeney likens to Elizabeth Browning's. To her son William, who went to sea as a midshipman, she wrote passionately loving letters. Excerpt: "Last night I had you close where you used to lie so snug and warm when...
...turn of the century. Wall Street was run by men in muttonchop whiskers, high square derbies, baggy trousers; they thought of stock prices as unrelated quotations on individual issues, often the result of manipulation. Charles H. Dow, a small, precise man, first editor of The Wall Street Journal, had a different idea; he had been keeping averages of railroad and industrial stock prices since 1897, had found beneath individual fluctuations a trend of the market as a whole...
Charles Dow died in 1902 without having made much impression on cynical Wall Street. A subsequent editor of the Journal, florid William Peter Hamilton, embroidered the idea, told men in pegtop trousers and telescope hats that the averages forecast both business and market trends. In 1922 he published The Stock Market Barometer, first comprehensive book on the Dow Theory. William Hamilton died in 1929-a few weeks after he announced that the greatest bull market in history had ended: "On the late Charles H. Dow's well-known method of reading the stock market movement from the Dow-Jones...