Word: stockmarketeer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although the legal path for the Standard of New York-Vacuum deal is now clear, owing to recent changes in stockmarket valuations, it will probably not go through on the original terms announced when the two companies decided to merge 16 months ago. The exchange ratio was to have been the equivalent of three Standard for one Vacuum...
...year after the 1929 stockmarket crash, the Lea-Caldwell enterprises tottered along, then suddenly collapsed. Their banks went under one after another, stripping thousands and thousands of citizens in and out of Tennessee of their deposits. Three bank officials committed suicide. Lea-Caldwell newspapers were thrown into receivership and Messrs. Lea and Caldwell were indicted in State and Federal courts...
Like most cinemas dealing with finance, this one reveals no great understanding of Wall Street methods, maintains an unnecessarily pop-eyed attitude toward the interesting but not incomprehensible maneuvers of stockmarket operators. On the other hand, it conveys the clear impression of a character who, if not much like the late Hetty Green, resembles somewhat the world's conception of her. Actress May Robson noticed how Hetty Green's mouth curved down in a hard line under a snub nose, how her eyes sparkled merrily under tufted, threatening eyebrows. An expert in makeup, she made her own features...
...Stockmarket Flayed. Gambling in stocks is international. Britons, Germans, Frenchmen, the King of Spain, Chinese, the King of Afghanistan and speculators of every race were participants in the U. S. crash of 1929. Naturally, last week, the most popular speech at the Conference the only one interrupted by incessant laughter and cheers was a great flaying of the New York stockmarket by Chicago's droll, drawling "Mel" Traylor...
...girl (Mildred McCoy of It's a Wise Child, is more or less kept by three very dull fellows, each of whom imagines her to be his own true love. One is a banker, another an artist, another a fisticuffer. She milks them all for money, then the stockmarket crash comes, leaving her men broke. But Miss McCoy, being such a smart girl, has invested their money wisely. She brings them all together, gives their money back, goes out of their lives. It is an awful show...