Word: wall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fairly clear that ever since Mr. Ford pulled his company out of Wall Street back around 1920, he has been proud of escaping the fangs of financiers, and quick to blame them for all labor and political troubles. The amazing growth of the Ford Motor Company in the decade of the twenties as an independent concern without financial backing from outside has set an enviable precedent for small and large businesses that might wish to emulate its course. Yet, every business manager is not a Ford, and therefore big banking seems as inevitable a factor in the industrial picture...
...more farsighted employer lives in America, Mr. Ford does not embrace leftist viewpoints. His philosophy is that of the small business man on a large scale; only over his dead body would he permit the abolition of competition and the control of industry by either the government or Wall Street or even labor. It might well be his ideal for business to control the others. Likewise, it would appear that he hates the pillars of the Republican party as much as he detests most of the New Deal policies...
Place of the Manhattan meeting was the Manufacturers Trust Co. offices at Broad & Beaver Streets where old Mr. Ball made his headquarters in September 1935 when he bought into Alleghany Corp. at Wall Street's most spectacular auction. Passed to Mr. Ball last week was a check for $3,000,000 made out to the philanthropic George & Frances Ball Foundation and signed by Allan Price Kirby, son of one of the founders of F. W. Woolworth Co. and the third partner in the deal. Another $1,000,000 came from Messrs. Young & Kolbe. Rest of the sale price...
With Cecil Rhodes looking on approvingly from a portrait on the wall, Sir Ernest Oppenheimer, cool, cultivated chairman of De Beers Consolidated Mines, Ltd., reported on the state of the world's diamond-mining industry one day last week in the company's famed board room in Kimberley, South Africa. Occasion was the 49th annual meeting of the company which, for all practical purposes, is the world's diamond industry. Founded by the young imperialist who established the Rhodes Scholarship Trust, originally chartered with powers not only to engage in commercial exploitation but also to raise armies...
...dangerous character, a fighting fool. With the "Bloody First" he got plenty of danger and many a fight: Second Manassas, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor, Petersburg. At Gettysburg Brose was in the charge that reached the highwater mark of the Confederacy inside the stone wall on Cemetery Ridge, led a handful of survivors safely back. Long before Appomattox he knew there was no hope left, but like many a butternut veteran was willing to go on. Mildred could hardly recognize as her fire-eating lover the tattered scarecrow that came limping into smoke-blackened, ruined Richmond after...