Word: wall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...says the animal would die, whether from the blow or old age I do not know. Another says the animal would be rendered unconscious. Still another insists that the animal would be bowled over, at least knocked to its knees. Personally, I would as soon hit a brick wall with my fist as the cow's forehead, and it is my opinion the affair would all in all be a very sorry one for the fist engaging in said fisticuffs, with no effect besides possibly a slight headache for the other side...
...State Bryant Baker's "Pioneer Woman," and then went bankrupt. He always felt that he had been euchred out of control of his Marland Oil Co. by unscrupulous financiers and when in 1932 he was elected to Congress, he kept up a steady racket against "the wolves of Wall Street." His gubernatorial platform: "A New Deal for Oklahoma," a State police system. State subsistence homesteads, wildlife conservation...
Whatever Austria's destiny, the Dollfuss Government got a fresh dose of Nazi terrorism last week. In the marble hall of the Provincial Government Building at Salzburg a bomb went off outside the door of the Provincial Director of Public Safety, blowing a great hole in the wall. In Vienna $5,000 damage to the famed City Hall resulted from a terrorist fire brand...
...three-year term went to trade commissioner James McCauley Landis, who helped draft the Stock Exchange Act and has been itching to get his regulatory fingers on Wall Street...
Last week when President Roosevelt finally named the Securities & Exchange Commission, Wall Street was not surprised that four of its five members were arrant New Dealers. Since commissioners will in future serve for five years, one retiring every year, the first appointments were staggered for varying terms...