Word: marketeers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mayor Bernard F. ("Barney") Dickmann had resulted in nothing more than bad blood, hot words. Last week both sides got their dander up over a city-wide poll on a $7,500,000 bond issue to build a memorial to Thomas Jefferson beside the Mississippi. Following day City Market Master James O. Stubbs and State Representative Lawrence J. Fontana, both Dickmann men, marched with two friends into the office of City Recorder of Deeds John P. English, head of the anti-Dickmann faction...
Next thing outsiders knew the City Hall was ringing like an armory. Out of the Recorder's office burst State Representative and Market Master, smoking pistols in hand. After them dashed two policemen. City employes scurried for cover as bullets zipped through City Hall corridors and across the lawn to the Municipal Courts Building. When it was over the State Representative had four bullet holes in his legs, one policeman had three, the other policeman one and everybody concerned had a different story to tell...
...Remarked Market Master Stubbs, whose cheek had been pinked by a bullet: "Just a little fight. Nobody hurt...
...Presidential tip is as good for a rousing market rally today as it was in 1928 when Calvin Coolidge undertook to boost securities. Now, as then, stockmarketeers made the most of it. And they were greatly aided by an accompanying hail of other good news, including a pickup in steel buying, active retail trade, a big bulge in carloadings (see p. 56), re-entry of the House of Morgan into the securities business (see below) and pegging of Canadian wheat at 87½¢ per bu. General Motors reported a striking sales gain in August over July. General Electric boosted...
...adults associated with her have engaged in a riot of skulduggery. Two villains, Claude Claptrap, a popular demagog, and J. Gordon Slugg, financier, have emerged to harass Annie's foster-parent, Daddy Warbucks, who continues to be a model of industrious honesty. He has begun to market a remarkable new building material when Slugg and Claptrap rouse a mob to burn the factory and kill the inventor. That crime ruins the enterprise and Daddy Warbucks. Daddy behaves with restraint and fortitude, saying only, "Slugg's a crook but he's not important. What is important is that...