Word: wall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...observers like the New York Times, crack London Correspondent Frederick T. Birchall believed them came stones c widespread trouble among General Franco's men: In Spanish Morocco 30 officers of the Tetuan aircraft post were shot for conspiracy; at Malaga 20 Italian carabineers were lined up against a wall and at Algeciras a batch of non-commissioned Italians in the Pavia Regiment were mowed down for plotting General Franco's assassination...
...robbery so they can hide out until the trouble blows over. But Johnny begins to crack when his sister's sweetheart is convicted of the murder and sent up to the death house. Frank persuades him that the only thing to do is to go over the wall with him and Scappa, who has got hold of two guns. Frank's private plan is to shoot Johnny as soon as they are outside...
...years, Thy love hath led us, Thou hast been our bulwark strong, Wall of fire against the wicked, Sword of power against the wrong. Thou hast blest of old Thy servants As they bore Thy message far; We who follow in their footsteps Evermore their debtors...
Invited last autumn to speak to the students of brokerage at the New "York Stock Exchange "Institute," SECommis-sioner William Orville ("Bill") Douglas stirred up a teapot tempest in Wall Street by unburdening himself on the "unestablished value" of customers' men, a financial tribe marked for early SEC attention. Referring to the "practice of gentlemen teaching gentlemanly ways of redistributing the wealth of their clients," tart-tongued Bill Douglas went on to observe...
...stocks" that account for the huge share-volume run up in daily trading. Toronto had a 5,000,000-share day last year, and a 1,000,000-share day is poor business. It is also the "pennies" that give Toronto its peculiar flavor. Bay Street (Toronto's Wall Street) and the surrounding district are not unlike any financial district in smaller U. S. centres. There are a Childs and a Savarin restaurant. Because hard liquor is banned in Ontario restaurants Toronto has developed a "Broker's Cocktail," a startling yet appropriate combination of beer and champagne...