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Died. Alexander Julius Heinemann, 51, president of the New Orleans Southern League baseball club; at Heinemann Park, New Orleans; by his own hand. Five days prior he had interrogated a groundskeeper as to how one might best shoot oneself. Causes: stockmarket losses, ill health...
Jesse Livermore, Wall Street operator, famed Bear, having received threats against his life following the stockmarket crash, made known that he had hired an armed bodyguard...
Tourists. The U. S. had a favorable trade balance (exports over imports) of more than a billion dollars last year. This asset was liquidated by the spendings abroad of U. S. tourists who, in national economic effect, had a free trip over and back. When the stockmarket crashed, its effect was felt even in Switzerland where resort bookings for U. S. tourists were heavily cancelled, U. S. children withdrawn from Swiss schools...
...Playwright Eugene O'Neill, when they gave his Bound East for Cardiff in a shack on a wharf in Provincetown, Mass. This winter they moved up from their small Greenwich Village theatre to Broadway. Subscribers' pledges of some $60,000 were not met. Suspected reason: "The stockmarket...
...lines with eye-googling and eccentric prancing. When he wrote his first book a year and a half ago (My Life Is in Your Hands, autobiography), he required the aid of a ghostwriter, one David Freedman. Publishers Simon & Schuster vow that his latest book, Caught Short, about the stockmarket, was written by the author in person one rainy Sunday afternoon (TIME...