Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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JAMES L. DOHR Associate Professor of Accounting Columbia University New York City...
...Roosevelt Depression" was the headline jubilantly chosen last week by New York's tory Herald Tribune to run over one of its own stockmarket graphs (see cut), accompanied by a letter from a reader...
...York Stock Exchange were to expel its biggest member firm, the act would be comparable to what happened last week on the Chicago grain exchange. Charging that it deliberately manipulated prices and attempted to corner corn futures last September, the Chicago Board of Trade expelled from membership Cargill Grain Co. of Illinois and its three top officers. Cargill Grain of Illinois is a subsidiary of Cargill Inc., generally accepted as the largest grain elevator and merchandising enterprise in the U. S. Snapped the Board of Trade: "Today's action is final and is not subject to review...
...unlike the "Old Guard" of the New York Stock Exchange, the members of the Chicago Board of Trade regard themselves as an exclusive club with a divine right not only to deal in grain but also to speculate in it. Just as the Stock Exchange has its SEC, so the Grain Pit has its CEA. But the Commodity Exchange Administration so far has been quite liberal and one of the few limits to speculative activity in grain is a mysterious "gentlemen's agreement" said to have been reached in 1926 by a Kansas city grain merchant named Lonsdale...