Word: tacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...peculiar appeal to people with an itch for quick money has the stock of Atlas Tack Corp., a little Fairhaven, Mass, concern whose volatile shares are listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Four years ago, by high-powered manipulation which attracted the attention of New York's Attorney General and later drew Federal mail fraud indictments. Atlas Tack was crow-barred from about $2 to $28 per share in less than a twelvemonth. That rousing performance was almost duplicated in 1935, the stock rising in less than four months from around $9 to above $30 per share...
...last week, SEC had got to the point in its Washington hearing of parading priests, housewives, and the manager of Harvard's Fly Club, all Hutton customers, to tell how they had made and lost money in Tack. Fly Clubber James Corcoran dealt from Boston with W. E. Hutton II, wiring him on one occasion: "I am sitting on 700 tacks. Where do I get off?" Partner Hutton got him off 600 Tacks at a profit of $2,400. The other customers questioned were those of Jerry McCarthy, a customers' man in Hutton's Detroit office...
...opinion of 'Tack' Hardwick '16, All-American end and member of the team in '13, '14, and '15, spring football is no longer the drudgery that it was in his day and therefore under the organization which "Dick" Harlow has effected it is invaluable and lots of fun. He felt that unless a football player was really essential to a spring team such as baseball or crew he would do better to take part in spring football. Questioned about Harlow he smiled and said "I have run out of superlatives praising...
...scare had died down by the time this statute was due to expire early last year, and the peacemen were unable to replace it with permanent legislation. But they did manage to tack on an amendment prohibiting loans and credits to belligerents, get the resolution extended for another 14 months...
...discuss such station-house matters as Atlas Tack that President Roosevelt summoned Messrs. Landis & Eccles last week. As was later revealed at a White House press conference, President Roosevelt was deeply concerned over the amount of foreign capital now invested in the U. S., particularly the large sums of timorous money which have sought temporary refuge in Manhattan and might be repatriated at an embarrassing rate should confidence be restored abroad. Both SEC and the Federal Reserve Board, said the President, were studying how to control this "hot" money by legislation...