Word: chimneyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the Assay Office was being moved into new quarters. Wall Street felt glad to be rid of it, for noxious fumes have belched from its ungainly chimney. To complete the moving, a billion dollars worth of gold and $70,000,000 in silver will have to be transported to the new building at South Street and Old Slip. The date and method of the moving were kept tomb-secret, although officials publicly estimated that it would take from 13 to 26 days. Also secret is the nature of the construction of the new building's great vaults...
...rumor that a bolt of lightning had struck President Lowell's house at 17 Quincy Street yesterday afternoon could only be confirmed by the absence of a number of bricks from the top of the chimney. Servants in President Lowell's home, asked if more serious damage had been done to the interior did not deny the rumor. Eye-witnesses report that the bricks were strewn over the roof by the power of the bolt...
...charge of the President's attempt to lure some $1,300,000,000 in currency out of mattresses, old teapots, chimney corners and safety deposit boxes was Col. William Franklin Knox, publisher of the Chicago Daily News. For a fortnight Col. Knox had been busily creating what he named the Citizens' Reconstruction Organization to combat hoarding. Chairmen were appointed in all twelve Federal Reserve Bank districts. Each State and city was organized for a great educational drive commencing this week...
...Sistine Chapel, in secret, solemn conclave, meets the College of Cardinals. An ugly black stove stands in one corner. Into this go used ballots, and, until a Pope is chosen, handfuls of straw. Outside, in the Piazza of St. Peter, is the mob, its eyes on a chimney. Smudgy black smoke indicates burning straw. Days pass. After 14 ballots the mob sees that the smoke is thin, white. "Habemus Pontificem!" We have a Pope! Cries the mob: "Un Papa! Viva il Papa...
Announcement comes from Washington of a "campaign to stop hoarding." House-to-house canvasses will be made throughout the nation, urging pater families to withdraw his money from the chimney-hole and put it in the corner bank. Colonel Knox, director of the campaign, has said that it "must convince people that the banks are vital to their own interests. The bank is a part of the machinery of life." The people who have lost their life-savings by the closing of banks throughout the country certainly will be surprised to hear that...