Word: marketeers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Emperor Haile Selassie, now dwelling quietly in the English countryside near London but insisting that a most warlike Ethiopian Government is on the rampage in "Western Ethiopia" against the conquering Italians, has created a keen news market for dispatches about this invisible "Government." Last week U. S. newsorgans began to carry stories dated overnight from "Gore, Western Ethiopia." They appeared to have originated by radio from Gore, referred to "the provisional Government here," declared that quantities of ammunition captured from Italians have passed through Gore in recent weeks, and named as the Gore Government's military leader Ras Imru...
...acre estate for $60,000 from Philadelphia's rich Coxe family, now have a fulltime retreat master, Rev. Dr. James W. Gibbons, who conducts 45 sessions a year. President of the League is John J. Sullivan, austere heir to a traction fortune, vice president of Philadelphia's Market Street National Bank and professor of business law at the University of Pennsylvania. Malvern has a mailing list of 6,000 men who have made at least one retreat there. Total attendance last year was 4,132. The secular spadework of organizing the gatherings is divided up among retreat captains...
...front cover) Ten minutes before the short Saturday session officially closed on the New York Cotton Exchange last week, a gong brought trading on the world's biggest cotton futures market to a silent halt. The U. S. Crop Reporting Board, having been locked in secret session in Washington since dawn, was about to release its first estimate of the U. S. cotton crop for the new crop year which opened Aug. 1. Trading also stopped on the country's other two cotton futures markets, in Chicago and New Orleans. On the spot markets scattered throughout the cotton...
...profits, by the way, at least half of them, as the result of the Government cotton policy." Mr. Clayton was referring to Herbert Hoover's Farm Board, not to the New Deal's curtailment of production, which he dislikes even more than governmental plunging in the cotton market...
...Commerce last week, Will Clayton gave he New Deal a hand for the first time in many a season. "The most significant development in cotton in the season just drawing to a close," said he, "is the fact that the Government is rapidly on the way out of the market. Less than a year ago the Government held approximately 6,000,000 bales of spot and future cotton...