Word: marketeers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stock handlers left 17,000 cattle and calves, 25,000 hogs, 10,000 sheep without service and the Chicago Livestock Exchange without a place to trade. Commission brokers and clerks fed & watered the stranded guests. The Exchange could do nothing for itself but suspend trading on the market where farmers sell (and brokers buy for packers and butchers) 13.1% of the cattle, 17.5% of the hogs, 5.3% of the calves, 10% of the sheep slaughtered in the U. S. under Federal inspection...
...YORK--Encouraging business news failed to aid the stock market today prices slipping irregularly lower on profit-taking in a dull session...
Both bull and bear forces were encouraged by the market action, the former contending that the slight sell-off largely reflected tax selling and realizing in a contracting volume of business, while the latter believe, as a result of the backswing from yesterday's recovery, that many traders are not convinced that the recent reaction has run its full course
With regard to stock market regulation, Martin would like "if anything less federal regulation, but more policing by the exchange itself." Martin, the youngest man over to become President of the New York Exchange, said that, compared to 1929, there is practically no speculation today; he added, however, that "nobody ever got anything without taking a chance...
...that Country Editor William Allen White voted for Coolidge and wrote a partisan biography in 1925, this biography is a sharpshooting, puncturing book, at once the most human portrait of Coolidge the man, the most devastating portrait of Coolidge the politician, and the best account of the Coolidge bull market that has yet appeared...