Word: standings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...here to tell you about, and believe me it is no easy job. As a matter of fact I might say that after my national success of last week on a bunch of games which almost any palooka who wasn't a sports writer could have predicted, I stand in a rather precarious position: It's not that I don't know what will happen; it's simply that I hate to dish old friends like Arnie Horween and Mal Stevens. Now these--two boys seem to think that if I would keep quiet they could decide it between themselves...
...cheering the hero and his virtuous sayings. It was indeed an unlooked for pleasure to see spectators young and old clapping their hands in high glee in time with the music and stamping heavily on the accented beat. The atmosphere was extremely contagious, and few found it possible to stand aloof from the general merriment...
...Castle, Del., where the whipping post contrasts strangely with a "model'' prison system. Warden Elmer Joseph Leach, denouncer of whippings which he has to administer, has developed at New Castle the unique plan of his predecessor Warden Plummer. Over the 600 convicts stand only three guards. The inmates are given prison keys, allowed to work unguarded outside the prison walls, permitted to drive trucks to Wilmington unaccompanied. Escapes are rare. The convicts themselves deliver discipline, ostracize rule-breakers. The inmates are given piecework, earn money for cigarets. clothes, sweets. During the day they wear blue denim work clothes...
October 23. Why then, did a Market which had broken on Oct. 23 demonstrate with a continued crash on Oct. 24 that the end of the Great Bull Market had really arrived? Professor Fisher may stand a discredited prophet, yet apt appeared his analogy between the break on the market and a run on a bank. The Bank was U. S. Industry. Assets of the bank were the real assets of U. S. Industry. Stocks were the paper money which the bank had issued. Now all banks, even the Federal Reserve System, issue more money in paper than they have...
...many a corporation promptly called in its loan at the first sign of trouble. Five directors of one corporation threatened to resign last week if their company should call its loan. These directors took the honorable position that having once loaned its money to the stockmarket, the corporation should stand by the market so long as its loan was adequately protected by collateral...