Word: moneys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Suppose that one considered 84 an attractive buy in Liberals. Then by having one's broker "place" ?1 ($4.86) at that figure one would get exactly one's money back if the Liberals win 84 seats, and would receive an additional pound for every seat they win above that number. Inversely, if one sells Liberals at 80, and if only 70 candidates of that party are returned to the House, one pockets a crisp "tenner" ($48.60). To guess wrong in either buying or selling is to lose a pound a seat...
...such pretense, has for patroness the able and energetic Mrs. Harry Elstner Talbott, widow of Engineer Talbott who built the Soo locks and many a railroad. Herself a good amateur musician, Mrs. Talbott was quick to see the worth in Conductor Williamson's work, to contribute generously her money and time. Aside from the choir, her interests have been manifold and great. She has been president of the Anti-Suffrage League in Ohio, of the Anti-Saloon League. She has been an active realtor in Miami. She is mother of nine children-seven comely daughters, all married...
...growing magnificence of the money-changers has by no means smothered religion in the Wall Street district. Only last week a new orthodox Jewish synagog opened its doors there for the first time. The synagog is merely an office building room given by Benjamin E. Greenspan, a lawyer. Some day he hopes to build a fitting edifice on the roof of one of the skyscrapers. Once indifferent to religion, Lawyer Greenspan found fresh faith two years ago when his eldest daughter miraculously escaped Death. Thereafter he prayed during every office day. Last week more than 100 Jews went...
...last week, no less than three presidents journeyed to Wiesbaden* to sign the contract. They were: the President of General Motors Corp. (Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr.); the President of General Motors Export Co. (James David Mooney); the President of Fisher Bodies Corp. (Frederick J. Fisher), chief of the seven money-minting Fisher brothers...
...leases during boom years around 1906, he "wildcatted." No oil. More dollars; another dry hole. Again he drilled. Oil. Fortune. He sold his first holdings for $2,500,000, and took a flier in rails, in utilities. But oil paid better. He returned to the fields, making more money to buy rail holdings. Fortune turned to vast fortune. He built a railroad; he became a power in transit. Oil gushed for him steadily through the years...