Word: thoughtful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Civil War was to him wasteful and harmful to the economy. His theory was justified in the 1890's when the vast confusion of railroad systems brought most of them to bankruptcy. Here, Morgan had his chance to bring supreme order to an industry, an order which he thought was essential to all industries...
...days last week, Wall Street' brokers thought that the long-ailing stock market had got the tonic it needed. On th first day after the reduction in margin requirements from 75% to 50% (TIME, Apri 4), trading on the New York Stock Ex change hit 1,800,000 shares and the Dow Jones industrial averages jumped 2.4 points. It was the biggest volume since November, best gain since October...
...woman in the audience fainted. Without a second thought, New York's Mayor James J. (for John) Walker darted from the radio microphone into which he was delivering his inaugural address, and knelt at her side. In the brief radio silence that day in 1926, thousands of New Yorkers stared at their sets and wondered: What was Jimmy...
...November 1946, he died. Traffic delayed the hearse on its way to St. Patrick's Cathedral. The crowds shuffled and the choir boys waited. A policeman put the thought in words: "Our little Jimmy is late again...
Professor Struik dubbed the charges as "absolute nonsense." He admitted sympathy with some Marxist thought but denied being a professional revolutionist...