Word: schley
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...that career, he had also been one of Wall Street's craftiest speculators. Baruch could be bearish or bullish. He once sold Amalgamated Copper short and realized $700,000 when Amalgamated reduced a dividend, causing its overpriced stock to tumble. Another time, alerted by a newspaperman that Commodore Schley had beaten the Spanish at Santiago, virtually ending the Spanish-American War, Baruch spent July 4, 1898, on the cable buying U.S. stocks in the London market. Next day he made a neat profit when the New York Stock Exchange reopened following the holiday and prices shot upwards on word...
...long as anyone could remember, Georgia's Schley County had always dispensed justice Southern style. Its Negroes, who constitute half the population of 3,300, sat in court as prisoners or witnesses but not as jurors. Last month, however, a new jury commission revised the venire and added 100 Negroes to the petit jury list. As a result, a Negro teen-ager charged with killing a white policeman last week faced a 'jury of eleven Negroes and one white...
...second period Bland took the spotlight away from Forstman, turning away six shots including one by John Schley, who broke away on a solo flight and faked cleverly from Bland's right to left before shooting from a few feet out. Yale fought especially hard during the second period, and tried hard to capitalize on two Harvard penalties which overlapped and for 26 seconds dwindled the Crimson attack to a forward and two defensemen...
...third rescue party. The Senator from Maine wanted the ships to be U.S.-built. The Senator from Delaware insisted that only volunteers serve in the crews. The Senator from Kansas questioned the "vast expenditure." On April 24, 1884, a rescue flotilla finally set out under Commander Winfield Scott Schley, who, 14 years later, was to destroy the Spanish fleet at the Battle of Santiago. After a two-month voyage and a search of the coves and inlets of Baffin Bay, Schley reached Cape Sabine. Only Greely and six others, out of 25, remained alive. In memorable understatement, an emaciated survivor...