Word: wall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jersey. Hamilton Fish Kean, 72, Wall Streeter and gentleman farmer, possessor of the finest set of mustaches in the last U. S. Senate and the finest set of conservative Republican opinions, offered himself for reelection. Against him New Jersey Democrats put up popular Governor A. Harry Moore who closed his campaign with eight words: "I will simply take a bow. Thank you." Senator Kean's chief hope was the unnumbered tribes of Jerseyites who daily commute to Wall Street. But they preferred a clean shaven...
...months ago Frank Kent's friend William Henry Grimes, onetime Washington correspondent and now managing editor of the Wall Street Journal, persuaded the Sun to let him print "The Great Game" for a price. Soon other managing editors of other papers, who had been close personal friends of Mr. Kent's when they were Washington correspondents, had negotiated the same sort of deal?Arthur Sinnot of the Newark News, Robert Choate of the Boston Herald, Roy Roberts of the Kansas City Star. Then for the first time the Sun agreed to full syndication of the column, yielding Pundit Kent considerable...
...procession of grimy trucks and creaky wagons bearing big placards wound slowly through the deep, dim streets of downtown Manhattan one lunch hour last week. Wastepaper dealers were holding a parade against their luckless lot. Under contract at 15¢ per cwt. to empty the trash baskets of Wall Street's tall towers, they were unable to sell their wares for any price at all. Whereas a year ago they could get as much as 70¢ per cwt. for this waste they were now having to pay a big incinerator a fee to dispose...
...days later a potent delegation of bankers accompanied by Francis M. Law, retiring ABA president, went to the White House to thank the President for his kind words. Banker Law. arriving by taxi, found that he had no money in his pocket. A correspondent of the Wall Street Journal lent him 25? and impishly put an account of the transaction on the Dow-Jones news ticker. Before the delegation was ushered into the Presidential office Mr. Roosevelt had got the news from his ticker. He met Banker Law grinning. The New York Herald Tribune solemnly quoted the President...
...When Ferdinand Pecora got through with Wall Street there were only two secrets left-the partnership agreement of the House of Morgan and the wealth of the New York Stock Exchange. Last week, with the reluctant consent of the governors, the Securities & Exchange Commission released the Big Board's figures. A consolidated balance sheet of the Exchange and its five subsidiaries revealed total assets...