Word: wall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fenner & Beane. President Hanes may be a stockbroker by trade but he is a tobacco man by birth. His father helped found a big Winston-Salem tobacco company which was merged with R. J. Reynolds (Camels). After Yale (1915) and the War (Navy), "Johnny" Hanes went north to Wall Street. He is largely responsible for the fact that Chas. D. Barney & Co. today is regarded the leading authority on tobacco stocks. A big Reynolds' stockholder, he is reputed to glower terrifyingly at any office caller who dares pull out any other cigaret than Camels...
...know the identity of the ungrateful artist who could accept the New Deal's relief money with one hand while burlesquing it with the other. Crowds jammed the hall. Pink with excitement, President Charles Arthur Birch-Field of the West-Chester Institute had the Nightmare placed on a separate wall and charged 25¢ admission to see it. From Wall Street somebody telephoned in to offer $3,000 for the picture to present to the Library of Congress. A man named Goldberg would pay $5,000 for it to exhibit throughout the country. Unable to authenticate either offer, Mr. Birch-Field...
...25¢ to see the Nightmare of 1934. He entered the room behind a giggling crowd of suburban housewives and stood for a minute looking at the picture. Suddenly he pulled a bottle of paint-remover from his pocket, splashed it over the canvas, yanked the caricature from the wall, touched a match to it. The flames flickered out quickly, but the picture was ruined. Housewives fled screaming. John Smiukse was instantly arrested. While Mr. Birch-Field and Jere Miah II conferred whether to make the charge arson or malicious mischief, reporters found John Smiukse in the Tarrytown police station...
...Wall Street had fun last week at the expense of Major Lawrence Lee Bazley Angas and his latest pamphlet The Coming American Boom (TIME, Aug. 27). For a time the brisk, dapper London stockbroker, whose record as a market forecaster has been well publicized, displaced President Roosevelt as the most-discussed man in the Street. One day when stock-market trading dwindled to the lowest level in twelve years, brokers said it was because everyone had stopped to read Major Angas' prediction. Few days later when trading swelled suddenly to more than 1,000,000 shares and prices soared...
Last week President Roosevelt issued to hundreds of thousands of peaceful U. S. citizens what virtually amounted to a call-to-arms. Throughout the land guns were taken from the wall, fondled, cleaned, oiled. From Washington had gone news of this year's regulations by the Department of Agriculture for shooting migratory waterfowl...