Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Baker Library of the Business School which deals with the first big stock inflation in history. It is called "He Groote, Tafereel der Dwaasheid" (The Great Picture of Foolishness) and is a collection of Dutch cartoons and satires on the speculative craze that resulted in John Law's Mississippi Company on the Continent and the South Sea Bubble in England. The book was stated on the title page to be "Printed as a Warning for Posterity, in the fatal year, of many Follies Among the Wise...
...Mississippi Company was organized by the Scotch economist and gambler, John Law, to run the French finances and monopolize the Mississippi trade. Shares were put on the market at 500 livres and mounted in the course of the craze to 20,000, although French finances were in a bad way and there was no Mississippi trade to speak of. Men sold their all and hastened to Paris, crowding the Rue Quincampoix, the Bourse of that day. Shares even were sold for a company to exploit perpetual motion and "for a design which will hereafter be promulgated." In 1820 the whole...
...Casey" Jones lives in Jackson, Tenn. She has employed Ex-Governor Brewer of Mississippi as counsel...
Grand Spectacle du Mississippi et Des Négres...
Died. Jacob McGavock Dickinson, 77, Secretary of War in the Taft administration, native of Mississippi, anti-Bryan Democrat, Confederate veteran, of Chicago; in Chicago...