Word: wall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...harmless new 3? stamp with likenesses of his old accomplices, General Ulysses Simpson Grant and General Philip Henry Sheridan at his side. But to many Georgians and South Carolinians, General Sherman is still repugnant in any form. At Columbia, where an indignant legislator heatedly recalled that the west wall of the State Capitol still bears scars made by Sherman's cannon balls, the South Carolina House oi Representatives passed a resolution calling upon South Carolina's national Senators and Representatives to demand that the Post Office Department stop the memoria issue because the military career of General Sherman...
...Tokyo capitalists, Premier General Hayashi named Managing Director Seihin Ikeda of Mitsui & Co. to be president of the Bank of Japan. This was as if President Roosevelt should suddenly appoint a Morgan Partner to be Governor of the Federal Reserve Board. As would have been the case in Wall Street, financial Tokyo was ''immensely relieved." Next followed a hammer blow. When Premier Hayashi first received imperial orders to form a Government, the "gold-braiders" clamored for Lieut. General Gen Sugiyama, an out-and-out militarist, to be War Minister. Premier Hayashi, however, with a show of tact, gave...
Eighteen players have been named to take the trip. Hodder will start his usual lineup which includes Captain Winslow, Edvin, and Eaton on the forward wall, Francis and Roosevelt at the points, and Freedley in the goal...
...made money as a selling agent for textile manufacturers, has spent more time at his summer place in swank Greenwich, Conn. Now 43, tall, dapper, greying, he is correctly affable and forceful, smart as a whip. In an editorial entitled "Big Business Looks Ahead," the Wall Street Journal sermonized on his election to Steel's board as "an example of the increasing consciousness on the part of business management of the importance of labor relations...
...incurable optimist, Pushkin was glad it was not Siberia, did not realize he was banished till several years had gone by without his recall. He passed his days as usual, kept in duelling trim by shooting patterns on his bedroom wall with wax bullets, by twirling a heavy iron cane wherever he went, to strengthen his trigger hand. And he wrote verse: pornographic, blasphemous, lyric, political, and his masterpiece, Eugene Onegin, a novel in verse form. Once, as a punishment for some escapade, Pushkin was sent off to inspect a locust-ravaged district, write a report on conditions there...