Word: smacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...office at W. E. Hutton & Co., was a bull. Not until the decline was well under way did he loom as a powerful bear. He is of medium height, fairly heavily built and a little mysterious to all but a few men in Wall Street. He is quiet, says "smack 'em" whenever stocks are mentioned. He has been mentioned as the No. 1 Bear in Case Threshing and is reported to have bet $1,000 that by the end of 1933 Case would sell lower than his pet, Alaska Juneau. At the time their respective prices were...
Last year "Smack 'Em Ben" is said to have been asked if he were any relation of David Lamar, onetime "Wolf of Wall Street," manytime a criminal suspect. He is supposed to have laughed, replied, "Sure, I'm the brother-in-law of the Wolf of Wall Street." The New York World telephoned him to ask if this fact was true. He thought it was a joke, said yes. The next morning the World published a story in which it said that Bernard E. Smith was David Lamar's brother-in-law. Within 24 hours this statement...
...Smack in the face of the House, soon after it convened, James Henry Thomas, Laborite Minister for the Dominions, hurled the announcement that Australia had just been granted a two-year moratorium on repayment of her War debt to Great Britain...
...Sunday just two years ago a trimotored Ford of Colonial Western Airways, Inc. faltered over Newark Airport, glided smack into a railroad car loaded with sand. All 14 passengers were killed. Pilot Lou Foote alone surviving what was then U. S. aviation's worst accident. Last week ended the joint trial of six $100.000 damage suits-largest aviation damage trial in the U. S. Verdict: awards of $89.000, varying from...
...Smith would write a weekly newspaper "feature" (TIME, Nov. 24) many there were who expected to see the Brown Derby perched jauntily at the top of every paragraph. Last week the first Smith article appeared in 70 Saturday and Sunday papers. Although Unemployment was the subject, there was no smack of stump-speeching, certainly no Hoover-heckling.* Indeed, Writer Smith noted that "We have had breadlines in New York City even during our most prosperous times." He chided the U. S. public for its short-sighted failure to prepare unemployment relief during days of plenty; upheld the President...