Word: wall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...come into the midst of this city, which, in the minds of most Americans, has consecrated itself to the worship of Wall Street," announced the political priest, "I come not to criticize or berate individuals. I come to lift my voice on the doorsteps of a modern Temple of Mammon only to condemn a system of private money control...
...circumspect before reaching any decision, but once we have made up our minds, we march straight toward our objective and never turn back. . . . An unknown infantryman [Mussolini], one of many who fought, suffered, died and won to give Italy a radiant victory in the World War, wrote on the wall of a house near the banks of the Piave River: Better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep. This motto, more than any other, is our gospel...
...picture every schoolboy knows, the great Raphael's oval Madonna of the Chair, has hung for centuries on the wall of Florence's Pitti Gallery. The director got a curt notification to take it down and pack it for shipment to Paris. At the same time the director of the Uffizi, having read a similar command from Il Duce, was reluctantly packing Botticelli's masterpiece, The Birth of Venus, Michelangelo's Holy Family, Titian's Flora. At the Bargello it was Verrochio's David. At Milan's Brera it was Raphael...
When John Pierpont Morgan I, pacing his office at No. 23 Wall St., heard the decision dissolving the Standard Oil Trust, he growled: "How in hell is any court going to compel a man to compete with himself?" Few blocks away at No. 26 Broadway, home office of Standard Oil of N. J., thin, aging John D. Rockefeller took a calmer view. "We must obey the Supreme Court," he advised his six associates. "Our splendid, happy family must scatter...
...friends he can be gracious, charming and an exciting conversationalist. For years he has delved deep in broad economic studies, has latterly developed strong doctrines concerning economic nationalism and the necessity of upping farm income by subsidy schemes. These he delights to propound to many an aghast or incredulous Wall Streeter. And he retired not to a leisurely country life on his Mt. Kisco, N. Y. estate but to further research...