Word: nones
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Life Assurance Company of Canada (one of the largest of institutional stock-buyers) : "The present crisis in the stock market squeezes out inflation caused by speculation, and we have taken opportunity largely to increase our holdings, and we are still buying." Said Chase National's Albert Wiggin: "None of the corporations or institutions I am connected with is selling stocks at this time. We are buying." President Hoover said that U. S. Industry was on a sound basis. The banking group also met again Monday evening and on Tuesday was again quoted as standing firmly (bulls thought...
...what somebody had once said they were worth. So nonsensical did all this seem that some brokers refused to sell out their customers even when technically they might have. But the awful expected began to happen when one brokerage house, John J. Bell & Co., was suspended. What failures loomed, none could say. Would the nightmare, to many tragically cruel, never end? As shades of Tuesday evening fell, it seemed again that the worst was past. A belated ticker recorded gains in significant stocks. New York Central was three points above Monday's close. Hysteria, it was hoped...
...shoulders of Harold Fowler McCormick, Mr. Insull has made it his favorite plaything. And most things that Samuel Insull plays with are sooner or later made to pay. Thus, though Architects Graham, Anderson, Probst & White had orders to stint nothing in making Chicago's opera house second to none for luxury, they also had orders to surmount the edifice with a 21-story office building. In the auditorium are rose-velvet boxes, rose-brocade chairs, a gold and ivory proscenium arch, lush carpeting, amber lights, spacious cloak rooms, a rose-and-gold foyer with towering columns of Roman travertine...
...theory behind this experiment is in line with the modern tendency in education and for the practical application of the principle no better field could be found than Harvard University. The vast resources for research, and the presence of a faculty which is second to none in this country marks this college as one in which a student would be able to utilize his opportunities to the utmost...
...whenever the audience stopped laughing. Best shots: Lloyd's account of his love-affair with a girl whose picture he obtained from a photomaton machine that functioned faultily; the fight with the dope ring; getting the police commissioner's fingerprint. The Devil's Pit (New Zealand). None of the many cameras searching out strange races of the world has ever caught one in the process of creating its legends, yet it is easy for people who have never seen any Maoris to believe that these in The Devil's Pit are not modern but ancient...