Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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According to the stockmarket's omniscient policeman, Mr. Meehan had been jiggling Bellanca since last April, using the old but now forbidden device of "matched orders''-buying & selling simultaneously to create an appearance of market activity. This is done to make the public think that something exciting is about to happen in the stock under manipulation, lure them in as buyers. Jiggled or not, Bellanca rose from a low this year of $1.75 per share to a high of $5.50. Last week, though no one except a few SEC and Curb officials were supposed to know about...
...even with SEC as a "policeman whose business it is to watch out for pyromaniacs," Mr. Gay did not have full faith in the new Federal fire department. "Will it. perhaps, break down in the hurly-burly of actual practice?" he asked. ''None of us can have forgotten that the Federal Reserve System ... the embodiment of the best banking thought and experience in the world, did not check the great inflation which culminated in 1929. . . ." And he broadly hinted that the weakest spot in the credit hose was the Treasury with its huge stabilization fund and its moral...
...proxy fight for control of Madison Square Garden Corp. (TIME, Sept. 23), Colonel John Reed Kilpatrick (president) outpointed Colonel John S. Hammond (chairman) 144,000 to 129,000 votes. Starting in the club barroom of the famed sports arena, with a policeman at the door, the meeting lasted four days while election judges wrangled over the count. Colonel Hammond announced that he would challenge Colonel Kilpatrick's victory in the courts...
...Orange, N. J., Rocco Marano, 30, walked up to a policeman, said: "I've just shot and killed my father. He's lying in the gutter on Henry Street." Son Marano explained that his father had threatened to cut his mother's head off, eat her heart. Father Marano. whose mother was found beheaded in Italy some years ago and whose brother is wanted for murdering his wife & son. had just returned from prison after serving a 15-year sentence for murdering a saloonkeeper's wife...
...wasn't dead. She lay weakly spitting out teeth and blood. Doctors think she will live. Her face may be twisted with scars despite the surgeon's work. A policeman said she looked as though someone had hit her in the face with a sledge-hammer...