Word: loudest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made on an investment basis, preferably to persons not likely to throw it back on the market for some time. The bank profits by getting rid of the stock. The firm profits by the $4 difference between buying and selling price, less commissions to salesmen. Critics who are loudest in their objections to the new plan charge that, since redistributing firms will support their stocks during the process of redistribution, another artificial phase will be added to the Exchange's famed "free and open market." They warn that specialists on the Exchange, angry at the loss of potential business...
...many of these Oil Barons are themselves frightened, and, I believe, now is the time to strike." Immediate reason for the Doherty blast was a conference of independent oilmen, called by the Governors of eleven oil States. But at this meeting, in Washington, Government-control was not an issue. Loudest and longest were speeches urging an oil tariff...
...still strong though no longer fast, was entered; so was big, blond, popular Charles Winter; Gaetano Belloni's wild mane of crinkly hair pushed out above his handlebars. The crowds, always emphatically Italian in Manhattan, cheered Linari & Binda, billed as an imported road team, but they yelled loudest for their favorites, Franco Georgetti and Paul Brocardo. When the last hour began, Brocardo & Georgetti were riding desperately to keep a one-lap lead over two young Belgians, Adolph Charlier and Roger De Nef. Strong, ambitious, daring, Charlier & De Nef were in every jam, always dangerous, took three times as many...
...friend was in Paris, where Maggie came for an abortion and died in a charity hospital. Then came the War, and Caroline worked as a nurse in the daytime, at night as a proxy sweetheart for homesick soldiers. In post-War Paris she was one of the loudest maenads. One day she decided to take old Tawaska's advice, go off in her own company and have a look at herself. Caroline may not be Authoress Borden's mouthpiece, but Caroline has a low opinion of men, and her experience would seem to justify it. Only the queer...
...Jersey Democratic Nominee Alexander Simpson is making just the sort of campaign for the Senate against Republican Nominee Dwight Whitney Morrow that G. O. P. leaders deplore loudest. Nominee Simpson's attack: "This isn't a political campaign. It's a crusade against intolerable conditions. . . . Five million people walking the streets looking for work! Do you assume the people will . . . say to Hoover: 'You're all right. ... We want more men in the breadlines . . . more businessmen out of business . . . more farmers bankrupt? . . . The people are going to tell the President he has to do more...