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...Coming American Boom'') Angas, nor a blast of optimism from Propheteer Roger Babson, nor the fact that the American Federation of Labor plumped for the profit system, nor the universal pessimism of brokers' market letters-sure sign of better times ahead-could prevent the stockmarket from going down, down...
Federal regulation of the stockmarket begins Oct. 1. Chairman Joseph Patrick Kennedy of the Securities & Exchange Commission announced last week that there would be no "upheaval." He was proceeding cautiously, seeking practical advice at every step. It was announced that virtually all issues listed on the Stock Exchange would be available for trading after Oct. 1, thus scotching reports that companies like General Motors and Allied Chemical preferred delisting. But Wall Street knew...
...Coming Rise in Gold Shares was followed two days after Britain took sterling off gold by The Course of the Coming Boom [in Britain]. Just after President Roosevelt took office Major Angas wrote The Coming Rise in Wall Street, which was followed by a 90% jump in the stockmarket. More to the point, Major Angas has been adviser to the big London stock exchange house of Myer & Co., has a short but imposing list of clients and drives a Rolls-Royce...
...receipts for fiscal 1934 merely added to the evidence. Liquor retailing has been bitterly competitive and for small stores practically profitless. Big distributors are sagging under the weight of carrying the corner dealer. Even the distillers, always suspect, have found Repeal no gold mine. Few weeks ago National Distillers, stockmarket comet of 1933, hit a new low for the year on the same day that Coca-Cola hit a new high of $136 per share...
...stockmarket crash scarcely caused more of a national rumpus than the decision, in November 1929, to move Amos and Andy's radio time to 7 p. m. New York time. The country had learned to use Andy's word "regusted." The Secretary of State of Colorado and 100,000 other listeners in the West plainly stated their "regust" at the change because they could not get home in time for the broadcast. The "Amos and Andy Rebellion," which seriously threatened Pepsodent with a boycott, was only quelled when Gosden and Correll agreed to broadcast twice nightly...