Word: quick
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gambling on the stock market is not different from gambling in other business transactions. The purchase and quick resale of stocks is not any more gambling than the purchase and quick resale of lots. . . . The amount of margin upon which a man trades does not determine the gambling element. ... A man can buy stock for a small cash payment . . . and there is no reason to call him a gambler because he sells the stock shortly after at a profit. ... If the trading in stocks . . . is immoral, then the church should eliminate from her membership the heads of stock exchange houses...
...Scout Clifford Taylor, of Des Plaines, Ill., was cleaning fish. Suddenly he heard a cheer outside. Poking his head through the tent-flap, Scout Taylor was quick to recognize sparrow-legged U. S. Ambassador to England Charles Gates Dawes. No lavatory in his tent, Scout Taylor rushed out, fishy paws and all. Ambassador Dawes held out a clean white hand. "Afraid I can't shake hands," said the Scout, "I've been scaling fish." The Ambassador grinned, gripped the boys wrist...
...lynching in Alabama if I can prevent it." He called out 200 National Guardsmen to protect Bouyer "at any hazard" on his journey to Eufaula for trial. The courtroom resembled an armed camp. Bouyer was convicted in ten min utes, sentenced to death, pleaded for a quick execution. Like a person of impor tance, he was then carried back to prison in a special train...
...should be backed up within a few hours by a potent pronouncement from Engineer Hoover. The President promised the Prime Minister a warm welcome in October, then seconded the British gesture by announcing that the U. S. would postpone construction of three cruisers (see p. 12). Throughout Britain these quick-stepping developments met with such widespread enthusiasm that even the Conservative Daily Telegraph observed: "All parties must hope that Mr. MacDonald's optimism is justified and wish him well in his further negotiations." Key points in the MacDonald speech: Parity: The Prime Minister said that he and General Dawes...
...Remedy. Quick, decisive action came from the Federal Reserve System, from C. Breed Taylor, deputy governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. Out of storm-clouded skies over Tampa dropped an airplane from Atlanta carrying one million dollars in cash. Nervous Tampa depositors, entering their banks, saw in tellers' cages great stacks of crisp, green, reassuring bills. Soon, by rail and motor, arrived an additional $4,000,000. "The banks," said Federal Reservist Taylor, "will have all the money they need...