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Du Tillet used it only for his stock-gambling, about which Nathan understood next to nothing; but he had given, through Nucingen, an assurance to Rastignac that the paper would be tacitly obliging to the government on the sole condition of supporting his candidacy for Monsieur de

A Daughter of Eve 2007

So, after a stock-gambling crash and a mild recession, we had the worst recovery since the Great Depression.

Think Progress » Rush on Katrina: “We Can Make This a Category 5 Hurricane Destruction of the Left” 2005

The guiding intelligences necessary for the successful building and successful management of railroads should receive ample remuneration; but no man should be allowed to make money in connection with railroads out of fraudulent over-capitalization and kindred stock-gambling performances; there must be no defrauding of investors, oppression of the farmers and business men who ship freight, or callous disregard of the rights and needs of the employees.

State of the Union Address (1790-2001) United States. Presidents.

They controlled all three of the big insurance companies, with their resources of four or five hundred million dollars; one of them controlled a great transcontinental railroad system, which alone kept a twenty-or thirty-million dollar "surplus" for stock-gambling purposes.

The Moneychangers Upton Sinclair 1923

In a small way — though not for long — I caught the stock-gambling fever.

Marse Henry : an autobiography, 1919

In that capacity he had acted, from time to time, for a railroad with many axes to grind, a widespread stock-gambling enterprise, a minor political ring, a liquor combination, and a millionaire widow from the West who innocently believed that publicity, as manipulated by Mr. Ives, could gain social prestige for her in the East.

Success A Novel Samuel Hopkins Adams 1914

It has never been dollar-mad, nor frenzied by the virus of stock-gambling.

The History of the Telephone Herbert Newton Casson 1910

It has never been dollar-mad, nor frenzied by the virus of stock-gambling.

The History of the Telephone 1910

I didn't notice any signs that they were interested in stock-gambling.

The Titan Theodore Dreiser 1908

But now here was George W. Stener with a proposition which was not quite the same thing as stock-gambling, and yet it was.

The Financier, a novel Theodore Dreiser 1908