Word: wall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...party's respondent, pointed out that of the $6,541,000 in the 1928 Republican campaign fund, $2.580,000 was contributed by 239 rich men. Said he: "The Standard Oil's contribution was $92,500, the automobile manufacturers' $225,000, the steel magnates' $127,000, Wall Street's leading figures' $305,000. . . . Here are the names of 31 men whose contributions to elect Hoover reach the surprising figure of $698,000. . . . These men and these interests have no 'mortgage' on the Republican party, it is true. They have a strangle hold...
...stock called Alaska Juneau sold for $1 a share and this year it has sold for $20. It is, of course, a gold-mining stock-the one kind of stock which Bears can logically be bullish on- for when everything else goes down, gold becomes more valuable. Last week Wall Street brokers had a tall tale to tell of a fight among the bears which centred on Alaska Juneau and made it the most exciting stock on the Exchange...
...Smith, floor trader with an office at W. E. Hutton & Co., was a bull. Not until the decline was well under way did he loom as a powerful bear. He is of medium height, fairly heavily built and a little mysterious to all but a few men in Wall Street. He is quiet, says "smack 'em" whenever stocks are mentioned. He has been mentioned as the No. 1 Bear in Case Threshing and is reported to have bet $1,000 that by the end of 1933 Case would sell lower than his pet, Alaska Juneau. At the time their...
Last year "Smack 'Em Ben" is said to have been asked if he were any relation of David Lamar, onetime "Wolf of Wall Street," manytime a criminal suspect. He is supposed to have laughed, replied, "Sure, I'm the brother-in-law of the Wolf of Wall Street." The New York World telephoned him to ask if this fact was true. He thought it was a joke, said yes. The next morning the World published a story in which it said that Bernard E. Smith was David Lamar's brother-in-law. Within 24 hours this statement...
...Wall Street's passenger traffic has shrunk according to these figures given out by Interborough Rapid Transit Co.: Fares Collected, first four months...