Word: streets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years roundfaced, balding Thomas J. Mooney has been simmering like an Irish volcano in San Quentin prison. There he was sent because someone put a bomb in a suitcase and left it on San Francisco's Market Street, where it blew up to kill ten and injure 40 marchers and spectators in a Preparedness Day Parade on July 22, 1916. Charged with the crime principally because he was a rough labor leader even in a day and place where roughness was the rule, 33-year-old Mooney was convicted along with 22-year-old Warren K. Billings...
...most alarming storm signals last week were hoisted over Caxton Hall, not far from Downing Street, where a noisy hodgepodge of 300 anti-Chamberlainites, including Conservative and Liberal M.P.s, Communist Party members and editors of the liberal News Chronicle, set in motion the first all-party united front against the Chamberlain policies. Moving spirits behind the meeting were: its chairman, tall, scented Duncan Sandys (pronounced sands), son-in-law of Winston Churchill and, like him, an independent Conservative; Randolph Churchill, florid son of Winston, who has tried and failed three times to enter Parliament; Her Grace, the Duchess of Atholl...
...world, that he had won every match he wanted to win since Fred Perry beat him at Forest Hills in 1936, that he is the only tennist in history to win in one year all four major amateur championships: Australian, French, English, U. S. Like urchins arguing on a street corner, the Vinesmen usually ended the rally by jeering that Budge was at the top because he had never met any real opposition...
That the stockmarket should react unfavorably to indications of continued pump-priming was proof of business' confusion. Heretofore, such pump-priming talk has boomed the market, and even Wall Street admits that sharp curtailing of government largess would toboggan stock prices. Last week's pessimism apparently stemmed from the realization that new deficits may mean new taxes. But this was one matter on which Congress gave signs of having its back...
...Wall Street brokerage house of Jacquelin & De Coppet, greatly worried over what might happen to stock prices in the event of Franklin Roosevelt's death, took out in England a ?60,000 insurance policy on his life. It then deducted the premium, $23,102, from its 1933 income tax return as a business expense. The Commissioner of Internal Revenue disallowed it. So, last week, did the U. S. Board of Tax Appeals, declaring the case "wholly unique in the business history of this country...