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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long time Congressman Fiorello ("Little Flower") La Guardia of New York had been quietly stuffing a Pandora's Box with woe for Wall Street. Last week the box, a big, brown trunk, was so full of woe that it required two men to lug it in to Senator Norbeck's bear-hungry Committee on Banking & Currency, still investigating the stockmarket (TIME, April 25 et seq.). When Congressman La Guardia opened the lid, out flew a flock of woes for Bulls, Bears and the financial press...
Before he was arrested last January Pressagent Plummer seldom slipped. A onetime reporter for the Wall Street Journal (two of whose feature writers he had subsequently "convinced"), he had published three "financial" journals, once set himself up as "The Institute of Economic Research." Handling the ballyhoo for a pool that was bulling Savage Arms in 1924, Pressagent Plummer succeeded in placing favorable stories "605 times in 228 newspapers with a circulation of 11,248.000 in 157 cities with a population...
...Manipulator Harry Content and Pressagent Plummer, Hansell & Co. assumed sponsorship for the stock late in 1929. Plummer shot stories of a 65% increase in orders to papers in Springfield, Mass, (home of Indian Motocycle Co.), which were picked up by the Boston News Bureau, copied by its affiliate, the Wall Street Journal. Activity of the stock increased, the price was jumped from $4 to $7.50 in the second week of January 1930. Then the directors of Indian Motocycle purchased the rights to a Diesel airplane engine (for 50,000 shares of stock) from a well-known British inventor, agreed...
Steel & Dumping. Bethlehem Steel Corp., which in good times makes less money than U. S. Steel Corp., last week reported a first quarter net loss of $3,685,000 against "Big Steel's" spectacular loss of $13,218,000. Bethlehem Steel surprised Wall Street by ordering the regular $1.75 quarterly dividend on the preferred ($1,645,000) but investors seemed to take an omission next time for granted. The preferred sold at $38 to yield...
...plans call for a chapter house, administration building, synod hall, guest house, residences for canons and minor canons There are now schools for girls and boys, a college of preachers, the Bishop's house and garden. All of the 67½-acre wooded hill is to be enclosed by a wall with gates dedicated to the twelve Apostles. Ultimately it will represent perhaps $40,000,000 worth of pious enterprise?what Bishop Freeman calls a "powerhouse of religious energy." Of the more than $12,000,000 the Cathedral Foundation lists as assets, $7,000,000 has been raised since Bishop Freeman...