Word: wall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. William Fahnestock, 78, senior member of the New York Stock Exchange. head of Wall Street's Fahnestock & Co.; of heart disease; at Katonah...
...unicameral National Assembly met for the first time. The visible features of their new liberty in-eluded: 1) a school system almost broken down by lack of funds; 2) a sickly economic situation due to get worse as Philippine markets are lost behind the rising U. S. tariff wall; 3) the necessity to provide for self-defense, by universal military service, a trained reserve of 400,000 men; 4) a virtually empty treasury. Lest the National Assembly's opening be saddened, its political lord and master, President Manuel Quezon, spoke of these matters in relatively euphemistic terms, although...
...those who like to draw spiderweb charts in support of the theory that U. S. industry is banker-dominated, a possible starting point might be No. 2 Wall Street, home of Manhattan's First National, the "Baker Bank." A list of the late, famed George Fisher Baker's directorships included a choice slice of U. S. industry. Since the old banker died in 1931 at the age of 91 the Baker seats have been filled by George Fisher Baker Jr., now 58. As tight-lipped as his father, Banker Baker has offered no explanation for his recent resignations...
...vouch for the fact that he had no support whatsoever except for resting one hand lightly on top of the cloth-covered stick. He remained horizontal in the air for about four minutes. The tent was then put back. . . . Pat and I could see, through the thin wall of the tent, Subbayah still suspended in the air. After about a minute he appeared to sway, and then very slowly began to descend, still in a horizontal position. He took about five minutes to move from the top of the stick to the ground, a distance of about three feet. Evidently...
...nomination of Alfred Mossman Landon did not bring forth a boom, anti-Roosevelt Wall Street at least did honors with a respectable pop. The stockmarket managed to put on two successive million-share days before slumping back into the dullness of the past six weeks. Businessmen and brokers were pleased with, if not excited by, the G.O.P. platform. Mr. Landon's talk of gold had no market magic...