Word: openly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Still under indictment for murder last week, but by no means under arrest, was that frank and open swaggerthug, General Chang Tsung-chang, rich with the loot of Shantung, his former bailiwick. Fortnight ago Chang was-as he later expressed it-"handling a pistol." The thing went off and killed handsome young Prince Hsien Kai, cousin of China's deposed Boy Emperor Henry P'u-yi ("Henry") (TIME, Aug. 12). The shooting occurred in the garden of Chang's hotel at Beppu, a Japanese island summer resort. Last week the Beppu police made no protest when indicted...
...Market. Commuters on their trains last Friday morning discussed and laid grim bets on how far the Market would fall. The Los Angeles and San Francisco markets, still open on the previous afternoon when the Board's announcement was made, had crashed badly. Six hours ahead of New York, Friday's market at Amsterdam had opened with U. S. Steel plunging downward. To add to the threat of another Black Friday*; was the fact that brokers loans reached a new all time high, over six billion dollars. At the New York Stock Exchange, the gallery was packed with spectators...
Governors of the Manhattan Stock Exchange last week gave permission for the establishment of two branch brokerage offices on ocean liners. De Saint Phalle & Co. will open offices on the French Line ships France, He de France and Paris. M. J. Meehan & Co. will locate on the Cunarder Berengaria and the U. S. liner Leviathan. Details of keeping ocean travelers in touch with market fluctuations have not been announced. Engineers of Radio Corp. of America, however, have been working on a radio ticker.. Particularly appropriate as a wireless brokerage would seem the Meehan ocean-going branches, as broker Mike...
...often discussed was always postponed.* This year, however, the real estate business has not been good. Money has been tight, credit high, realtors embarrassed. So the exchange idea was revived and on Oct. 1, at No. 12 East 41st St., the first real estate exchange in the world will open under the presidency of Cyrus C. Miller, Manhattan lawyer and member of the New York Real Estate Board...
...with the Harris fame came no fortune. The open Enquirer-Sun got few new subscribers, sometimes lost many old ones. One thousand subscriptions were cancelled after the initial Klan-basting. Fighting a fight where other Georgia papers feared to follow, the Enquirer-Sun never grew above 7,000 circulation, often went to many less. Mr. & Mrs. Harris stood alone...