Word: marketer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Butchers and bons mots, liver and literature are seldom paired except inverse libre, at least until the advent of a genius. Such a genius is Bennie Sabitino of Long Island City. Saturday morning he opened there an "Intellectual Meat Market" where the cultured customer can enjoy "a conversation with him on any question involving scientific, philosophical, artistic, and literary considerations". Thus for once arts and the crafts are in harmony, and a criterion for future artists who find art ill paid, and future savants who find saving sage bulks from the building where Bennie works. Like the man who first...
...beyond all this the Intellectual Meat Market has proved already something else. For Saturday found crowds in that market and Saturday night found its coffers filled and its counters empty. Indeed, it has proved the modern craving for intellectual esteem. Language even of the crudest is now flavored with references to the cultural. And the intellectual ten minutes of reading a day raise multiple new literateurs. A new literature is springing from Penlmism and the literary aspirations of char women. Bennie merely guessed and guessed well. Anything intellectual, meat market or morgue, will draw a modern crowd. Fashion...
...Stock Exchange remained the liveliest feature of business during the past week. Motor shares, "bulled" for weeks to unaccustomed heights, became at length top-heavy. Thus the "technical condition" of the stock market became very weak; news of the Boston Reserve Bank's rate advance was enough to topple the motor stocks over in a record day of 3,400,000 share sales. Because of this unprecedented volume, many ignorant people concluded that a panic had started. As a matter of fact, nothing of the sort developed. The smash in motors was simply a large-scale reaction...
...tremendous activity on the New York Stock Exchange on Nov. 10, when the "bull market" in automobile shares collapsed violently, established a new high record for all time in the number of shares sold in a single...
...Pacific corner" day on May 9, 1901; and the third the "peace leak" day in December, 1916. Of these the second held the record at 3,336,695 shares. Nov. 10, 1925, however, surpassed this 24-year record by seeing 3,448,747 shares sold in the Exchange open market. According to some financial scribes, this was the worst break in the market on record, but most old-timers in Wall Street considered it a slight matter beside the terrific activity of the Northern Pacific corner...