Word: slapper
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Complementary but not conflicting were subsequent comments of slapped and slapper...
Said Slapped Swaffer: "I was surprised at my own calmness. ... I called the headwaiter and said, 'Throw this woman out.' " Said Slapper Foster: "I smacked him wholeheartedly on behalf of America. The dining room was crowded and I introduced myself by saying: 'You deliberately insulted me and I'm going to insult you in the only...
...Slapper Mitchell. Activities of Banker Mitchell as Wall Street rescuer and Federal Reserve Bad Boy turned upon his offer to put $25,000,000 into the call money market. Inasmuch as call money had reached 20% during the famed 8,000,000 share turnover market-break (TIME, April i), the assurance of available funds had a tremendous moral effect. For traders were not so much worried about a 20% rate as about the fact that even at 20% money was not available. Thus the Mitchell announcement stabilized the market, much to the disgust of the Federal Reserve Board, which...