Word: street
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strange city which is their official home. There was the riot of Times Square at night, the dark sky aglow with the reflected fire of the neon signs (by Claude Bottiau, a young Breton who works in an office supply room at Lake Success); the naked sidewalks of 17th Street, and the inside of a bare room with an iron stove (by IndoChina's Tao-Kim Hai, an expert in U.N.'s trusteeship division...
Tawdry Strings. Over the years moonfaced Judge Armstrong began to interest himself in other matters besides making money. He set up the Judge Armstrong Foundation and began writing pamphlets. One of them (Zionist Wall Street) was a bitter, loudmouthed attempt to prove that "Zionist Jews caused both world wars...
...thumbing defiance of all the gloom over strikes (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), the market blithely kept on rising, for the fourth week in a row. With a 4.1 point gain during the week, the Dow-Jones industrial average broke through the high mark (190.19) of a year ago, when Wall Street confidently expected a Republican victory, and reached...
There was hardly anybody who did not know somebody who had made a killing in the market. And last week, exactly 20 years after the era of wonderful nonsense suddenly collapsed, there was hardly anybody in Wall Street old enough to remember, who did not shiver a bit at the memory of October...
...Morgan offices at 23 Wall Street, Morgan Partner Thomas W. Lament called a council of war with five of Manhattan's biggest bankers: Charles E. Mitchell, William C. Potter, Albert H. Wiggin, Seward Prosser and George F. Baker Jr. (J. P. Morgan himself was in Europe.) About 1:30 p.m. they sent the "Morgan broker," Richard Whitney,* to the Stock Exchange's No. 2 Post, where U.S. Steel is traded. Cried Whitney: "I bid $205 for 25,000 shares of Steel." He moved on to other posts, cried other bids for huge blocks at the price...