Word: stockings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Government, like any other business concern, bows to the money market. But the Government, more than any other moneyed concern - especially since the Federal Reserve System began affecting the stock market - helps make the money market. Hence the interest of economists and the perturbation of speculators when Secretary Mellon last week made the Government's usual June bond offering to carry the highest interest rates since 1924. The offering was $400,000,000 worth of certificates at 4% for six months, 3⅞% for nine months...
...effect was most patent of all: with some $5,000,000,000 out bolstering stock market prices and with tension increasing, and with the Federal Reserve rate jacked up to 4½% all over the country to try and decelerate this movement-the money market of the U. S. was momentarily "high" and Secretary Mellon was obliged to offer, tax-exemption and all, the highest rate*he has paid in four years on short-term borrowings. Money men noted, also, that he made no specific reference to the terms that will be offered for financing the remaining...
Dictator de Rivera, who has now convalesced from a short illness, issued at Madrid last week a brief statement that his engagement is at an end. It contained the allegation that the Senorita Mercedes Castellanos has recently been seen on the Stock Exchange making purchases in company with the Duke of Almodovalhe and Count Cimera. Such conduct, says the communique, was "imprudent and inexplicable...
Booklets containing a resume of Harvard traditions and several special articles on the history of the college will be published and ready for sale on the day of Commencement Exercises, June 21, it was announced last night. The booklets will be kept in stock for purchasers at the Crimson Building on Plympton Street and at the Harvard Cooperative store. The cost will be $.50 per copy...
...Woodin's hospital bedchamber where he sat, like a squire with the gout, one bandaged leg propped up in front of him on a cushioned stool. Despite his injuries, Mr. Woodin was capable of declaring dividends of $1.75 on American Car & Foundry's $30,000,000 preferred stock (the regular amount); of $1.50 on its 600,000 shares of no par value common...