Word: marketeers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Then came the businessmen: President Robert E. Wood of Sears, Roebuck, President Gerard Swope of General Electric, Chairman Marriner Eccles of the Federal Reserve Board, President Henry C. Turner of Turner Construction Co., Banker S. Sloan Colt. When the stock-market promptly registered a hopeful advance after these conferences, it was so much like old times that the New York Sun printed a parallel series of 1929 and 1937 headlines. In the Hoover tradition, but not the Hoover manner, the President let it be known that he hoped to end the decline not by Government spending but by doing...
Throughout the rest of London only three incidents marred the solemnity of of the two-minute silence. At Ludgate Circus an iron-lipped whistler continued to shrill Night Must Fall until a crowd threatened to lynch hihim, and at Spitalfield Market Church the sentimental silence was shattered by a realist who suddenly shouted: "The dead are all right. What about me? I haven't had any breakfast!" Police had to rescue...
...Grande do Sul, bottling old President Washington Luis up in jail, cockily proclaiming himself Provisional President instead. That coup has been known as the "Coffee Revolution," since Brazil's former dominant States, São Paulo and Minas Geraes, had been weakened by a collapsing coffee market. Dressy but small (5 ft. 4 in.), President Vargas proclaimed himself a foe of the tottering coffee barons, set out to consolidate his political position by binding Brazil's 20 jealous, bickering States, most of whose governors supported their own armies, into a tightly centralized commonwealth. Having put down revolution...
...market was a litle shaky perhaps but otherwise nothing happened. And so big crowds went to the Bowl which was being opened for the first time, and watched Harvard beat Yale, thoroughly and completely, 36-0. This team was the greatest team in Harvard history. Besides Eddie Mahan and Tack Hardwick, there were on this team such Harvard illustriouses as Hugs Francke, Stan Pennock, and Jeff Coolidge who picked up a fumble on his five-yard line and ran 95 yards with...
...subject will be: "Where Is the Stock Market Leading Us?" Other speakers will be Professor Brayton F. Wilson, of the Tufts College Economics Department and George R. Ericson, assistant financial editor of the Christian Science Monitor. The discussion will be open to the public...