Word: long
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...instead of his break of "60-80 points," the industrial average dropped 183 (according to Prof. Irving Fisher's index of 50 most active industrials). Quickly capitalized was Seer Babson's accuracy, as were Wag Cantor's losses. Newsstands displayed for $3 a pamphlet giving Babsonic market recommendations. A long silent sage, John Moody, late last week predicted the break was over, that 1930 would provide a slow rising market with small volume, easy money. A broken sage was Charles Amos Dice, famed market student, who early in October published New Levels in the Stock Market, showing prices would fluctuate...
Wags. Wall Street has long had its own private store of wisecracks, but not until this year did stockmarket gags glut the revues and become current at U. S. dinner tables. Upon a tense, avid public, the market break released a flood of cracks, good & bad, new & old, clean & smutty. Foreign visitors, expecting a glum, panic-stricken people, were amazed to find a new joke for each new catastrophe. Among cracks more or less good, new, clean...
Suicides, long rumored, became facts, indicated some losers. Most prominent of suiciders was James J. Riordan, president of New York's County Trust Co. (TIME, Nov. 18). In Manhattan, George E. Cutler, wholesale produce merchant, jumped to death. In Philadelphia, Frank S. Palfrey and W. Paul Brown, brokers, shot themselves. In Chicago, Herman L. Felgenhauer, grain broker, took gas. A Rochester suicide was Robert M. Searle, president of Rochester Gas & Electric Co., who was supposed to have lost $1,200,000 in October. Once before he had lost $1,000,000, had gone to a sanitarium. In Scranton (Pa.), Carl...
Chess matches last so long that they acquire an individual character, an atmosphere, like that of a long book or a ponderous piece of music. When Dr. Alexander Alekhine and E. D. Bogoljubow began to play for the championship of the world last September in Wiesbaden it was soon evident that their match was unusual. It was no timid conflict between rivals mutually afraid of each other. It was a sort of scherzo in slow motion. They explored obscure, experimental lines of play. Instead of brooding for hours in the approved fashion of chess masters, they became at times noticeably...
...undersigned Christian women, protest use of those advertisements which show use of tobacco in any way by women and girls and children. These advertisements have been on display too long. No one can tell what harm has been done...