Word: ways
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...paper for those expatriates of whom Henry James liked to write. It carried whole pages of yachting news, maintained its own coach to Versailles, was written in two languages, with the somewhat quaint idea that people who spoke both French and English liked to read their news the same way...
...newspaper dogma that reporters and desk men are underpaid, that the only way to make money is to get yourself a column and be a trained seal. Last week's Congressional report on salaries of $15,000 and over in 1937 showed ambitious cubs how much fish the big trained seals...
Under the direction of a young SEC lawyer named Peter H. ("Handyman") Nehemkis Jr., surveys will be made in 561 towns and cities. SEC itself will concentrate on ten "representative" cities.* Already well under way, the job is to be finished by June 1. Said Jerome Frank: "We want to drench ourselves in facts." A sample question small businessmen will be asked: What per cent of your inventories have you borrowed against...
...tinkers in his own machine shop in the cellar of his East Orange, N. J. home, he is also a good salesman, a rabid Republican. His chief irritation is that the view from his Manhattan window includes a large picture of Franklin Roosevelt on a desk across the way...
Then he met a broker named Drexel (now a fugitive) who got him into the stock market in a small way. In the summer of 1929 Drexel invited the Birds to a summer camp with no telephone. While they were there, Drexel told Bird's secretary that her employer wanted her to arrange a $10,000 loan from the bank. She used her power of attorney to obtain it and Drexel bought $100,000 worth of stock on margin in Bird's name. Before Bird could extricate himself, the crash had come and he was short...