Word: stockings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Against this view was thrown the full weight of six men who had served as Secretary of the Treasury. Said onetime Secretary of the Treasury, now Senator, Carter Glass: "If Mr. Mellon is disqualified ... for holding stock, I was certainly ineligible for office, Alexander Hamilton was ineligible and so was every other Secretary of the Treasury...
...committee found a letter from Alexander Hamilton in which he said that, to meet the provisions of this old law, he has sold all his bank stock and government bonds but held his corporate shares...
...female mimics: Dorothy Sands and Paula Trueman. The latter sings a Mid-Victorian love lyric while stripping herself of illusion's oldtime harness−bustle, gussets, padded bosom. Congratulations pokes a rather feeble finger at country politics. Morgan Wallace (the name of both playwright and hero) is a stock company entrepreneur and leading man who, broke, is persuaded by a smalltown boss in Missouri to run as dummy candidate for Mayor. So potent has been his appeal over the footlights that he gets all the women's vote, is elected. Backstage scenes of the type resorted to here...
...last week from his stock farm at Maracay, President Gomez unexpectedly wired his Congress: "I cannot accept the high charge...
...been several weeks since stock market daily turnovers have approached the records set by the Big Hoover Market and the Big, Bad Federal Reserve. Last week, however, the Manhattan Curb reported a day's turnover of 2,537,000 shares, third largest in Curb history and considerably exceeded only by Nov. 28, 1928 with its three million record. Artificial, however, was last week's large statistics, inasmuch as the high figure resulted chiefly from frenzied trading in one issue. Opening the day with a 35,000-share order, Arkansas Natural Gas Corp.-almost inactive for months-turned over...