Word: said
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Despite these optimistic predictions, some of the debenture and stockholders who had not agreed to the proposed re-organization hinted that the main trouble lay not in the agricultural conditions but the management. Through a spokesman they said, "We propose to organize a committee to resist the receivership on the ground that such receivership would represent a retention of control and extension of influence by the same group responsible for this magnificent ruin. . . . The receiver proposed (John R. Simpson, president of Cuba Cane, Vice President and Director of Sinclair Consolidated Oil Corp.) is not qualified...
...chronic bear always predicting disaster"-were typical introductory sentences to Babson-flaying opinions. Last week the Market broke and the commentators either blamed the Hatry incident, the Snowden speech, the loans to brokers, or whatnot-or else conceded that stocks had been forced to artificial heights. Vindicated, Mr. Babson said nothing...
...left brokers' offices muttering threats. Dynamite was thrown into the home of one Charles H. McCarthy, manager of a brokerage Credit department. Stench bombs were tossed into the offices of Hornblower & Weeks, E. A. Pierce & Co., Logan & Bryan. "A new form of wolf has invaded La Salle Street," said the deputy police commissioner, ". . . The racketeer who responds with a bomb when he is called for more margin...
...Said Dun's Review last week: "Nothing has occurred to indicate that widespread trade recession is under way and statistics of railroad freight traffic show, week after week, that distribution of merchandise remains at a notably high level...
Divorced. William A. Rockefeller, grandnephew of John Davison Rockefeller; by Mrs. Florence Lincoln Rockefeller, his childhood playmate; at Bridgeport, Conn. Said she: ''My husband became addicted to strong drink. He gradually slipped...