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Flags were half-masted through the Reich. It was Germany's greatest naval disaster since the War. The Niobe was originally a Norwegian four-masted barque, captured by German commerce raiders at the beginning of the War. Re-rigged, commissioned as a training ship in 1922, she was the first commissioned vessel of Germany's post-War navy. In Chicago last week reporters wrote down messages of condolence from her first German commander, the much publicized lecturer, onetime commerce raider, strong-fisted Count Felix von Luckner...
Bear Smith told the committee : "People do call me one of the big operators, but nobody has ever called me a big bear raider to my face." Mr. Gray tried but failed to get him to admit that the floor specialist in a stock would give to pools information as to buying and selling orders on his books...
Suddenly from the front of the store came a hoarse, low cry: "Look out! Here comes Tommy Carr [Santa Monica's liquor raider]! Look...
President Whitney closed his speech with some remarks on the unpopular "bear raider.'' He denned this species as one who sells stock "not because he believes the stock is too high, but because he believes that by selling quickly and in great volume he can force the price to decline." Stung by the accusation that "bear raiders" were responsible for the last decline in the market Mr. Whitney gave figures to disprove it. On Sept. 21 the short interest of 3,697,000 shares was held in 9.369 accounts, averaged 400 shares each. "Transactions of the vast majority...
...novel cruise on a four-masted schooner yacht with Count Felix von Luckner, the famous German sea raider, as skipper, is being planned for a group of about fifty Harvard men during the coming spring vacation...