Word: wall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...success of the London Economic Conference of 1933, left the New Deal as its fiscal tendencies became apparent. Harvard's Oliver Mitchell Wentworth Sprague, monetary adviser to the Treasury, quit when dollar tinkering began. Special Assistant Earle Bailie had to retire because the Senate would not confirm a Wall Street man. Undersecretary of the Treasury Dean Gooderham Acheson, differing with the President on financial policies, departed without even a perfunctory expression of Presidential regret. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Thomas Hewes fell into disfavor with Secretary Morgenthau, was stripped of most of his duties, took the hint and resigned...
...years with the big Manhattan firm of Cravath, de Gersdorff, Swaine & Wood, Lawyer Douglas learned all that he cared to know about the current state of corporate law. He returned to Columbia to teach, having gained little respect and no love for Wall Street law or finance. Today he can accept a luncheon invitation from Morgan Partner George Whitney without a twitter. When Joe Kennedy drafted him to conduct SEC's investigation of protective committees, Mr. Douglas was occupying the well-upholstered chair of a Sterling Professorship at the Yale Law School. Having since ploughed through the mire...
Thus the Senate Committee on Investigation of the Munitions Industry set out last week to prove, if possible, that the U. S. had gone to war in 1917 because Wall Street's international bankers needed U. S. troops in the field to secure repayment of their Allied loans...
...Constitutional Amendment to short circuit Supreme Court interference with his economic plans. A new farm program had been conceived, but the politics of the farm issue was little further advanced than it had been on the afternoon of Jan. 6 when the Supreme Court pushed Humpty Dumpty off the wall...
...point midway between the molars. This cutting makes three gores in the roof of the mouth. With a blunt knife Dr. Vaughan separates the two rear gores from the palatine bone. This allows him to slide the soft palate, to which they are attached, backward to the rear wall of the throat. The loose flaps of membrane he then stitches to new positions on the palatine bone. By the time they grow onto the bone and new membrane grows over the bared portions of the bone, the soft palate has learned to prevent consonantal sounds from rumbling into the nose...