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...subjects are in the panorama of Mexican modes and mores. His frescoes are devoted to the city and country laborer, miner, country school teacher, market place, burial, festival, harvest, battle. Satirically bent, he has depicted a dinner table group including John Davison Rockefeller, John Pierpont Morgan and Henry Ford. Ticker tape winds among the wine glasses. There is a radio loud speaker, a steel safe door, a lamp shaped like the Statue of Liberty, an artificial female in a backless gown. But satire is a rarity with Artist Rivera. Most of his work is a sympathetic tale told with figures...
...Ticker-Watchers Cabot and Montgomery all thanks for detecting a typographical error...
...Phalles* would sponsor yet another innovation. Within two months, their office (at No. 11 Wall St.) will boast Manhattan's first electric quotation board. This device, which will separate many a "board boy" from his $15-a-week job, mechanically marks up prices as swiftly as the new tickers, giving five quotations for each stock: the last night's close, day's opening, high, low and latest. As the ticker registers a quotation, an operator in the central station of the Teleregister types it on a keyboard. Each depression of the key sends an electric impulse over...
...Wyckoff had contended (TIME, Dec. 10) that Mrs. Wyckoff had gradually cajoled him out of ownership of the Magazine of Wall Street which he founded in 1907 as the Ticker Magazine. This apparently was not the case. Mr. Wyckoff turned the management of the magazine over to Mrs. Wyckoff when he discovered that she was making it show a profit. In the early years she accepted stock instead of salary. In 1926 the Wyckoffs signed an agreement which severed their business relations, giving Mrs. Wyckoff complete control of the Magazine of Wall Street. Mr. Wyckoff received...
...Ticker. Of the $29,000,000, about one-seventh will go to provide bankers, brokers, speculators, with the fastest stockmarket service in the world. Woefully laggard were the ticker reports of the late great "Hoover Market" (TIME, Nov. 29, et seq.). New tickers, now being installed, will print 500, instead of 300, characters per minute...