Word: two
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...biggest bull," had been engaged in a month-long duel with Jesse Livermore, famed bear, was not a matter of public knowledge. No one could quite believe that Mr. Livermore was, in storybook fashion, tsar of a band of bears which had fanatically obeyed his orders for two months. But certain it seemed that a colossal effort to reduce the price of stocks had had masterful direction, beginning with the selling of U. S. securities by the French Government and other European investors weeks...
Soundly anti-climactic was the remainder of the trading week. The recovery of Thursday afternoon had brought most of the list back to within a few points of its Thursday opening. In the two final days an unofficial but obviously potent banking pool stood ready to prevent a retreat from becoming a rout, a recession from developing into a panic. In addition to the banks already mentioned, the banking pool was described as including George F. Baker's First National, thus renewing the old Morgan-Baker alliance which once caused J. P. Morgan to remark that the friendship...
...make his name known to other Pittsburgh families than his employers, seemed definitely settled there. But last week he resigned from Tones & Laughlin to be "actively engaged in the development of plans affecting the iron and steel industry." It was evident that the Eaton interests had. won, especially when two days later R. J. Wysor, general manager and assistant to President Girdler, also resigned...
...Two European conductors will make Chicago debuts-the Russian Emil Cooper, leader of the first Diaghileff ballet, since the Russian Revolution a resident of Paris; and Egon Pollak of the Hamburg Staatsoper...
Created and proclaimed a Cardinal in December 1927, two years had Cardinal Saenz been hatless. According to Spanish tradition, His Most Catholic Majesty King Alfonso XIII should have conferred the hat, in loco Papae. Instead, Cardinal Saenz had it from the hands of the Holy Father himself...