Word: tacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...formation of the Federal Reserve System in 1914 took away from the Chase some of its job as a bank for bankers, but Mr. Wiggin was already off on a new tack-building up the Chase as a great commercial bank. It grew, partly by merger, to be the biggest bank in the U. S. Mr. Wiggin was never thrown off his great ground-covering stride. His bank was not rated an archly conservative institution- no bank which grew so fast could be- but it was an immensely successful (i. e. well run) commercial bank with a finger in many...
Kermit Roosevelt, 44, able second son of the late great Theodore and founder-president of Roosevelt Steamship Co., was elected a director of Atlas Tack Corp. Elected at the same time was John Sargent, partner of President Roosevelt's eldest son James in the Lawson Insurance Agency of Boston...
Early this year when Atlas Tack was kicking around the New York Stock Exchange between $1.50 and $2 a share, a group including Frank Aloysius Tichenor, publisher of Alfred Emanuel Smith's New Outlook, Francis Dawson Gallatin, Manhattan lawyer, George Woodruff, treasurer of A Century of Progress, thought they saw possibilities in the little $1,300,000 company. By last month these gentlemen were in control and with some friends were duly elected to the board. By last week when Messrs. Roosevelt & Sargent became tackmen, Atlas stock was selling for $28.50 a share-its high for the year...
...showing toward recovery by Jan. 3 when Congress next sits. Senator Harrison's prophecy would doubtless be fulfilled and currency inflation would be foisted on the country by an hysterical legislature. To head off such a development the President last week went off on a sharp credit inflation tack...
...Bacardi Cup holder, who had brought his Ace, his crinkly smile, his old sailing hat and his crony Ed Willis from Port Washington. L. I., snooped out most of the light breezes in the second. Fink won the third race and seemed to be on the last tack to retaining his championship when the race committee reached a highly controversial decision: to disqualify Fink in the second race, in which he had finished sixth, for fouling Paul Shields's Gull. Shields had lodged no protest; the boats had not collided. Nonetheless, the committee said that Fink had crossed Shields...