Word: stockings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Michigan's Yost, in Manhattan last week, was dined by the Sportsmanship Brotherhood, also by the New York Stock Exchange (whose members and employes have teams in nine sports...
...Grundy is a man who raised $700,000 to elect Mr. Coolidge in 1924; who raised $615,000 in 1926 to elect a governor* of Pennsylvania who would veto a corporation stock tax; who raised $547,000 to elect Mr. Hoover in 1928. Mr. Grundy is a worsted maker of Bristol, Pa., and president of the Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Association. Mr. Grundy is the man who has gone down to Washington about every tariff bill since the Dingley Bill of 1897. Who knows better than Mr. Grundy why the Pennsylvania delegation in the House caucused unanimously for a special session...
Ruth Chatterton, brought from the theatre for sound-cinema, has a long jaw, sly eyes and a good voice. When she was 14 she quit Mrs. Hazen's school at Pelham Manor, N. Y., to join a stock company playing in Washington, D. C. Later she supported Lowell Sherman, Pauline Lord, Lenore Ulric. She translated La Tendresse from the French, produced it herself and played the lead. She was in The Devil's Plum Tree in Los Angeles when Emil Jannings requested that she take a screen test, and picked her for Sins of the Fathers. She says...
...Board is not the entire System. The twelve Federal Reserve banks and some 9.000 national and state banks that are members of the System have large and definite powers of their own. Stock in the 12 Federal Reserve banks belongs not to the government but to the member banks. Most of the money in the Federal Reserve banks belongs not to the U. S. but to the member banks. The essential theory of the Federal Reserve System is that the member banks in each district get together, pool their resources and form a virtually inexhaustible reserve fund upon which...
Significance. It is possible that stock-market speculation has increased or will increase so far as to compel a radical revision of Federal Reserve policies and functions. Meanwhile, however, speculators were inclined to feel that the Reserve Board's big words were larger than any big stick it might produce, that it was perhaps talking chiefly for the not inconsiderable moral effect which its speech actually did have upon a nervous and inflated Exchange...