Word: wall
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Jesse Livermore, Wall Street operator, famed Bear, having received threats against his life following the stockmarket crash, made known that he had hired an armed bodyguard...
...going for his health to Johns Hopkins, and has denied repeatedly that he is in the U. S. to seek refinancing of the debt. En route he stopped off for lunch with Mr. Lamont in Manhattan (TIME, Dec. 23), and after seeing President Hoover in Washington will return to Wall Street. If Finance Minister Luiz Montes de Oca should hasten from Mexico City to be in New York at that time, and several correspondents have predicted that he will, the weather would be getting thick indeed. At least the President-Elect has come straight to headquarters, cannot be accused...
...troubles are supposed to have arisen from heavy expenditures in distillation experiments and poor management. According to rumor several oil and utility companies, recognizing Combustion's strategic position, considered merging with it, then withdrew after viewing the involved finances and small amount of actually liquid assets. Significant to Wall Street was the fact that President George Edward Learnard, onetime Boston bookkeeper resigned Dec. 6, four days before the preferred dividend was passed...
Visible Empire. The seeds of empire, sown the last decade of the last century, first sprouted in 1893 when 160 U. S. Marines were landed for a Hawaiian "revolution." Later the islands were annexed to put their sugar production inside the U. S. tariff wall. The Spanish War added Porto Rico, the Philippines and Guam as imperial outposts, gave the U. S. a protectorate over Cuba. From the 1902 revolution in Panama the U. S. got land for the canal, laid the foundation for U. S. dominion over the Caribbean. Theodore Roosevelt, if not an imperialist, was a master empire...
...Cherbourg fishermen prayed as a hurricane blew the harbor waters into a 50-foot wall, smothering the breakwater...