Word: marginal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Congress: He served one complete term (1919-1925) in the Senate. Seeking re-election in 1924 he was defeated by a narrow margin (20,000 votes) by onetime House Speaker Frederick Gillett in the Coolidge landslide. His revenge came in 1926 when he ousted from a Senate seat William Morgan Butler, chairman of the Republican National Committee, strongly-endorsed Coolidge friend. Last year he was again reelected, helping materially to carry Massachusetts for Nominee Smith. He voted for Tax Reduction (1928), Flood Control (1928), Boulder Dam (1928), the Cruiser Construction Bill (1929), Radio Control (1928) and Reapportionment (1929). He voted...
Heroes. Julius Rosenwald, board chairman of Sears, Roebuck, early in the decline offered to cover the margin accounts of all his employes, became the prime hero. Later Standard Oil of New York became hero-ized with its announcement that it would lend $43 a share ($11 above the market at one point) to employes who had borrowed on their holdings. Other helping companies were Standard Oil of New Jersey, Humble Oil, Gulf Oil, U. S. Steel, Newton Steel. Late last week, when Washington's official silence was broken with promise of the tax reduction, then of an industrial conference, Hoover...
...dealing in his own stocks, most famed of which were Idaho Copper and Columbia Emerald. Through his "financial" paper, The Iconoclast, he kept in touch with gullible yokels, advising them of activities within the companies and upon the "Curb." Faith-provoking methods of the Iconoclast were constant attacks upon margin trading, advice to buy sound New York Stock Exchange securities, instructions that widows and near-paupers keep their funds in savings banks. When at carefully regulated intervals Rice stocks went soaring on the "Boston Curb," stockholders received personal telegrams from Promoter Rice, exhorting them not to sell. Specific charge against...
...peculiar kind of courage to attempt a dropkick on 3rd down when a touchdown seems so near, and a team which has felt its power in a long march is not likely to try one. However, it is highly probable that the game Saturday will be decided by the margin of a drop kick...
...York City. Tammany's Mayor James John Walker beat Republican Congressman Fiorello Henry La Guardia for the No. 1 municipal office in the U. S. by an eight-to-three margin. The only surprise in the election was a large "protest" vote given Socialist Norman Thomas (174,931 out of 1,314,820 votes cast). Said Mayor Walker: "One great issue was settled-a man can wear his own clothes. . . . My ambition is to make everybody in the city smile. . . . You ain't seen nothing yet." Mourned Candidate La Guardia: "What a shellacking they gave me! . . . People...