Word: storms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...authors (The New York Stock Exchange in the Crisis of 1914 and The Stock Exchange: Its Economic Function). Author Noble blames depression on wars, says that to blame speculators and the Exchange is to reason "that when a barometer falls it creates and precipitates the ensuing storm. . . ." Since 1935 he has retired from most Wall Street activities except lunching, has read Greek mythology and European newspapers, listened to music, cruised in chartered yachts...
...last week. In a foreword, Dr. Howard Chandler Robbins, of Manhattan's General Theological Seminary, estimated that one-tenth of Germany's Protestant pastors have defied the predominantly anti-Christian Nazi State and suffered the consequences. About two-thirds are lying low, hoping the storm will blow past. The remainder have either joined Germany's innumerable pagan cults or, as "German Christians." have sought to purge Christianity of its inconvenient elements. Purgers-in-chief have been the German Christian Bishop of Bremen, Dr. Heinz Weidemann, and Ludwig Miiller, the bullet-pated army chaplain whom Hitler appointed Reichsbischof...
...night Molly is sure Henry intends to leave with the sea gypsy, she determines on a desperate last defense: a diversion of the sea gypsy's attention to herself. The sea gypsy accepts, and the next morning her body is found in the wake of the storm to which she surrendered...
...Roads, laden with gold ingots worth $10,000,000. Some of the gold was to pay off the English army fighting the French in Holland; the rest was to soothe a banking panic in Hamburg. Half her cargo was insured with Lloyd's. In the North Sea a storm hit her. With bare poles she ran before the wind, struck on the island of Terschelling at the mouth of the Zuider Zee, and sank in 50 feet of water...
...When a storm broke a window of Philbert Hartshorn's hardware store in Owosso, Mich., he wrote the company from which he had bought insurance asking them to replace it. The company did nothing. He wired: REMEMBER THAT YOU ALSO CARRY OUR BURGLARY INSURANCE. Repairs were promptly made...