Word: streets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME seems always in the market for new words so here's one my little niece coined. She was excited about a man on the street trying to crank an old-model car. In describing it to her Grandpa she said, "It was just a 'jalopidated...
...unanimously once more. "Dictatorship . . . involves costs which the American people will never pay . . . spiritual values. . . . The blessed right of being able to say what we please . . . freedom of religion . . . seeing our capital confiscated . . . being cast into a concentration camp. The cost of being afraid to walk down the street with the wrong neighbor . . . of having our children brought up . . . as pawns molded and enslaved by a machine...
...employment conditions of the overworked Government agencies and industries with Government contracts. Before returning to Harvard, Frankfurter thoroughly enjoyed himself as one of the brighter apostles of Wilson's "New Freedom." With a group of cronies he lived, entertained and talked in a house on 19th Street. This establishment, which humorous old Oliver Wendell Holmes called The House of Truth, was the precursor of the "little Red House on R Street" which several of Mr. Frankfurter's protégés, including Ben Cohen and Tom Corcoran, made famous...
...Tire & Rubber Co. in 1898, was ousted in 1921 by Dillon, Read & Co. He immediately started Seiberling Rubber Co., in six years boosted it from 330th to seventh place in the industry. Last week, in Adrian H. Muller & Son's musty old auction rooms at No. 18 Vesey Street, Manhattan, he gave an exhibition of his financial talents...
Broker Joseph Sisto, debonair son of Italian immigrants, spoke no English until he was ten, worked his way through high school and Wall Street to found his own firm in 1922. His first suspension was the result of overexpansion nipped by depression. Broker Sisto, good friend of Benito Mussolini, was in Italy visiting his many clients there when the crash came. He sped home, quickly arranged to pay his creditors 50? on the dollar, made up the balance with shares in Sisto Financial Corp., his personal investment trust...