Word: wall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...benefit of J. P. Morgan & Co., and the munitions-makers whom they dubbed "merchants of death." And last week, on an unguarded flank of the Roosevelt Administration, whose big guns for six years have boomed denunciations of "princes of privilege," "entrenched greed," "wolves of Wall Street," "money-barons," etc., etc., they found a rich ammunition dump: at the head of the all-important War Resources Board, Edward Stettinius Jr. Morgan-man, head of U. S. Steel; as a member of the Board, Morgan-man John Lee Pratt of General Motors; in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York...
...Peace Jitters." In far from bucolic Wall Street, meanwhile, war babies stocks sagged heavily as traders, apprehensive of peace proposals Orator Hitler might make at Danzig, did a little quick profit taking, then spun the dials of their radio sets to hear the Führer. "It was a market based on peace jitters," recorded Financial Editor C. Norman Stabler of the New York Herald Tribune. He figured that the day before, "the market lost 32% of the war upswing" because it was feared that A. Hitler might directly propose peace...
...this had been taken as the keynote of the speech, Wall Street's war babies might have ceased to bounce, but the Führer also said: "We are all men who in their long struggle have been nothing but attacked. That only tended to increase the love of our followers. . . . [When Britons say] that this war will last three years, then I can only say my sympathies are with the French poilu. At present he knows that he will have to fight for at least three years. ... If it should last for three years then the word capitulation...
This was enough for Wall Street traders, the war babies promptly recovering their losses, some even bouncing fractionally higher than before Hitler went to Danzig...
...Brauchitsch, was reported to have arrived from Poland on the Western Front, with headquarters at Bingen.* The No. 4 Nazi, Rudolf Hess, was reported making a tour of the entire Westwall. The chief of the Nazi labor battalions, Robert Ley, was known to be here & there behind the Wall, driving his men to complete and strengthen the fortifications behind which Germany was preparing either a permanent stand or a counteroffensive the nature of which was darkly dramatized by A. Hitler's reference in Danzig to "a weapon with which we cannot be attacked...