Word: wall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...drowned in thunderous cheers when he keynoted for a "third term for Roosevelt's ideals." Josh Lee, the junior Senator from Oklahoma, caused pandemonium by yelling: "Now is the time to unleash the devil dogs of democracy and set them baying on the trail of the Wolf of Wall Street! America, now is the time to unsheathe the sword of human rights! Now is the time to raise the banner of Roosevelt...
...injections to get through it. Recently he fainted in the French Finance Ministry. Twenty-four hours after his death the bank announced it was suspending payments. Immediately Paul Reynaud announced that the French Government was in no way affected, that all Mendelssohn contracts had been carried out. But in Wall Street money wiseacres suspected that Mendelssohn's crash might bring down with it many another European banking house...
...citizens stuck with German bonds, SEC's refusal to let Germany "pay" was no great loss, if anything, opened possibilities of a better deal. The bonds were last week kicking around in Wall Street for 25? on the dollar, in Germany, at 60 pfennig on the 100 pfennig Reichsmark (good only in Germany). If SEC had accepted the application, bondholders would have got $35,000,000 of bonds (1937 and '38 interest) which at 3% would have netted them about $1,000,000 a year in usable money. British holders of German bonds got a better deal which...
Last fall from the leaf-red hills of White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., the New Deal-fearing Investment Bankers Association of America reached as far from Wall Street as it could stretch for its new president: sunburned Jean Carter Witter of the California firm of Dean Witter...
...secretary to a retired millionaire who fancied radicals. An anarchist sympathizer, at 18 he made campaign speeches for Woodrow Wilson. He made and lost a War fortune in commodities purchased on borrowed money, turned conscientious objector when the U. S. entered the War. Since 1919 he has worked in Wall Street, managed private banks in London and Paris, been in the grain trade in Antwerp, written for financial magazines, ghost-written two books on economics. In all, he has made and lost three fortunes. His last flyer was olive groves in Spain...