Word: market
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fortune by selling watered Erie stock to Cornelius Vanderbilt. Pursued by the law, he uses the Ninth Regiment, of which he is the Colonel, to help him get across the Hudson to New Jersey, uses the profits from his killing to start a one-day corner on the gold market. When President Grant announces that the U. S. Treasury will release unlimited quantities of gold to stabilize the price, Fisk is ruined. Conveniently, at this crisis in his affairs, he is shot to death by one of a mob of brokers who have just survived "Black Friday." He dies repentant...
...fishmarket at the time the murder happened. The prosecutor brought in a basket of fish, held them up one by one. Romano named all wrong. The prosecution grinned, rested. Liebowitz jumped up, appealed to the Jews on the jury. Romano had been working in a kosher fish market. "Why they're trying to convict him on Christian fish!" he thundered. The jury acquitted...
Brazil is the second largest world export market in South America, and President Vargas has simply obtained a golden bagatelle for use in exchange operations to keep the Brazilian milreis pegged to the dollar at its present worth of about 6^. This pegging will be "within certain limits," Brazilian Finance Minister Arthur de Souza Costa and Secretary Hull announced at Washington, without disclosing the limits. Only as needed by Brazil will the $60,000,000 in gold be sold by the U. S. Treasury, a few millions at a clip. Although earmarked for Brazil it will not leave...
...trade-promoting schemes which Dr. Schacht works with his various kinds of German marks. This week Adolf Hitler openly revealed his displeasure at the Brazil-U. S. liaison, declared that Washington was "envious" of Germany's increased Brazilian trade, was trying to spoil Brazil's German cotton market by forcing Brazilians to pay higher prices for their industrial imports. Significantly the Fiihrer appointed as Brazilian Ambassador Dr. Karl Ritter, foreign trade specialist and one of the Reich's shrewdest diplomats...
Before he died he had given his son Joseph $1,000,000 as a Harvard graduation present (1891), seen him almost corner the U. S. wheat market and lose $9,750,000 (1898), become a famed horse racer and sportsman. He had seen his daughter Mary wed a Britisher who became Lord Curzon, and Viceroy of India. He had seen his daughter Marguerite marry another English title, become the Countess of Suffolk & Berkshire, and his daughter Nancy pick as her second husband Lieutenant Colonel Colin Powys Campbell of the British Army...