Word: stockmarketeer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...witlings, dizzards, giddy-heads and zanies. In the daily 3 o'clock promenade on Montgomery and Kearney Streets, for which the whole city "habitually turned out, were to be seen such picturesque characters as "Topsy Turvy," a woman who had lost her money and her mind in the stockmarket, always wore her clothes inside out, her shoes on the wrong feet and was buried by sympathetic friends under an upside-down tombstone; "Guttersnipe," a filthy scavenger who was hooted by the city's children, and left $15,000 to one moppet who did not hoot; "The Great Unknown...
...they have escaped the rigid Federal regulation of their fellow stock brokers. Minor commodities, as yet unexploited, were being investigated. Quicksilver, now selling at $75 per flask of. 76 Ib., was suggested as a good inflation hedge. Bernard E. ("Sell 'Em Ben") Smith, brash and jovial stockmarket operator, lately returned from a trip around the world full of good words for shellac and pepper. Though he personally inspected the habits of the Far Eastern lac beetle, he had apparently been influenced by a group of London speculators who call themselves the "Crusaders" and whose sworn purpose is to make...
Wall Street, proverbially volatile, greeted President Roosevelt's signing of the Securities Exchange Act last week with a rousing stockmarket rally. After averaging a bare 500.000 shares a day for the past month, trading on the New York Stock Exchange leaped...