Word: wall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dragged to the stand to revive an even more ancient scandal was Dr. Henry Franklin Cutler, Elliott Speer's 75-year-old predecessor. During Dr. Cutler's regime Cashier Norton was on such precarious terms with Dean Elder that he bored a hole in his office wall to spy on the dean and his red-haired secretary, Evelyn Dill. When Mr. Norton reported to Headmaster Cutler that he had seen the pair kissing and embracing, the headmaster had attempted to straighten things out by holding a "harmony" prayer meeting in his office. At the time, Dr. Cutler painfully...
...almost none. Good shot: a carnival strong man tossing Red Scanlon into a creek. The Toast of New York (RKO) exhibits Edward Arnold, previously seen as Diamond Jim Brady, General John Sutter and an Oregon lumber tycoon named Bernard Glasgow, as swashbuckling Jim Fisk, whose financial freebooting nearly disrupted Wall Street in the decade after the Civil War. Abetted by his young cronies, Nick Boyd (Gary Grant) and Luke (Jack Oakie), Fisk amiably horn-swoggles pious little Dan Drew (Donald Meek) out of control of the Erie Railroad, then makes a fortune by selling watered Erie stock to Cornelius Vanderbilt...
...Rothschilds-were for generations neighboring banking families of Frankfurt-am-Main. Founder in 1928 of National Statistical Service, Inc., Mr. Schwarzschild still supervises the annual publication of famed, authoritative American Underwriting Houses and Their Issues. Believing that the obsolete security business begun by Mr. Smythe needs to get beyond Wall Street and the Produce Exchange into the attics and safe-deposit boxes throughout the East, Mr. Schwarzschild last week announced a campaign to arouse owners of forgotten bonds. This week Smythe, Inc.'s first traveling library will leave Manhattan in a trailer for upstate New York in charge...
...little to charge off to strikes, the company's profit margin showed a sharp drop, from 19.8% in 1930 to 14.7% in 1937. Labor and material might be rising but any company that can retain nearly 15? operating profit from each $1 of sales still looked good to Wall Street, and Chrysler stock closed last week at $115 per share, up from the June...
...staring icily across at her brother Joseph's bald head, demanding that the Illinois courts remove him as trustee of the Levi Leiter estate, charging incompetence and extravagance, calling for a special accounting. Sister Nancy Campbell stood by Joseph. Perhaps he had once schemed to buy the Great Wall of China and preserve it for posterity. What if he did once order 50 dozen pairs of silk socks? "I am a hard-headed American businessman," he told the court. "While my sisters were going to Europe marrying titles, I stayed by our property and managed...