Word: roses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this shocking challenge old "A. P." Giannini rose magnificently. A Trans-american stockholders' protective committee was formed in San Francisco. Giannini returned from retirement to lead it into a bitter proxy fight for control of Transamerica. After he had toured Italian colonies in California his friends and countrymen rallied to boot Mr. Walker and his friends and countrymen out of Transamerica...
...Arctic Building to pick Representative Zioncheck up and take him to address a meeting of postal workers. Mr. Nadeau went up to the Congressman's office on the fifth floor, found him writing. "Come on, Marion, let's go," said his brother-in-law. Mr. Zioncheck rose, dodged suddenly into the next room, plunged through an open window. He struck the sidewalk head first, 50 ft. from the car where his wife was sitting. She screamed, fainted. On the dead man's desk was found this final scribble: "My only hope in life was to improve...
...this the Treasury paid a fictitiously high price-78? per oz. last week. If this same silver had been sold in the world market, it would have brought the current world price-45? per oz. last week. Under the stimulus of this 33? Government bounty, U. S. silver production rose from 16,742,000 oz. during the first half of 1935 to 29,852,000 oz. during the first half of 1936. To win the silverite West away from the New Deal, the GOP, as Manager Hamilton well knew last week in Salt Lake City, has to promise Western silver...
...Austin Warner ("Haw") Tabor (TIME, March 18, 1935). To an eager crowd were offered a dozen silver nut picks, a pearl-encrusted fan, 50 silk handkerchiefs, a quart of rye whiskey, dozens of photographs, a gold safety pin which once secured the diapers of Baby Doe's daughter Rose Mary Echo Silver Dollar Tabor. A silver dollar made into a locket containing Silver Dollar Tabor's picture drew the highest bid: $26. Finally, the auctioneer hoisted a pair of long red flannels which Baby Doe wore for years before she died. "Here is your opportunity, girls! Winter...
...with virtually no investment on his part, a handful of broken-down trusts early in Depression. Putting them together as Equity Corp., he sold out to Mr. Milton in 1932 at a profit of $750,000. This promoter was Wallace Groves, now in possession of Phoenix Securities Corp., which rose appropriately from the ashes of still another trust. Truster Groves's method was to use one trust to buy another, but his deals were so involved that one of his directors once felt impelled to warn him: "We may seem to you unduly sensitive to public, or rather informed...