Word: wall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wall Street Joe Sirs...
...Bureau grow up with its expanding job. Chief qualification for a would-be investigator was a letter of recommendation from his Congressman. And under suspicious, eccentric Director William J. Burns, who used to keep photographs of Lenin and Trotsky, like a special rogue's gallery, on his office wall, several ex-convicts and the notorious Gaston B. Means wormed their way on to the Bureau's rolls. Such was the sloppy and demoralized agency which, in the scandalous spring of 1924, J. Edgar Hoover was handed by Attorney General Harlan Fiske Stone, who had just succeeded Harry Micajah Daugherty, besmirched...
...Book-of-the-Month Club, gave readers a more detailed account of existence in a well-to-do broker's family in a settled and serene period of U. S. history. For young Clarence Day it was a great treat to visit his father's dusty Wall Street office on Saturday mornings, riding to work on the steam-driven Sixth Avenue Elevated, watching his father salute acquaintances by touching cane to ilk hat brim. He listened to bewhiskered brokers fuming about the proposal of the Knights of Labor for an eight-hour day, watched bookkeepers remove their detachable...
...collectors took notice last week when Dr. Charles Herbert La Wall, able dean of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science, said that old-fashioned drugstores' shelf-ware, mortars & pestles, glass window globes filled with red-& blue-colored water, had been largely destroyed, predicted that they would be listed as "almost priceless collectors' items of the next century...
...Book-of-the-Month Club, gave readers a more detailed account of existence in a well-to-do broker's family in a settled and serene period of U. S. history. For young Clarence Day it was a great treat to visit his father's dusty Wall Street office on Saturday mornings, riding to work on the steam-driven Sixth Avenue Elevated, watching his father salute acquaintances by touching cane to ilk hat brim. He listened to bewhiskered brokers fuming about the proposal of the Knights of Labor for an eight-hour day, watched bookkeepers remove their detachable...