Word: stockmarketeer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...against such delays and losses in future, the National Building Trades Employers' Association last week met the executive board of the Building Trades Department of the American Federation of Labor at Tampa, Fla. To the meeting President Hoover, vitally interested in expanding construction as an antidote for the stockmarket crash, sent a message: "To find a method for the amicable settlement of jurisdictional disputes is indeed one of the most important. questions in our labor relations. It is capable of solution. . . . I am indeed glad to wish success to your endeavors...
Last month in Editor & Publisher, 25 editors of the business press reported cheerily in unison that, in spite of the recent stockmarket crash, "Business is essentially sound." They had heard the story from President Hoover a month before when they went to call on him at the White House. Differing but slightly in the degree of their optimism, only their method of individual delivery distinguished each glad statement. In part, said they...
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...