Word: wall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ducked. The 25 stalwarts leaped to their feet. Bang, bang! Tejeda turned, sprinted for cover. The 25 turned with him. sprinted into the line of fire. Tejeda dodged and twisted from door to pillar. The 25 dodged and twisted with him. Bang, bang! Nicks suddenly appeared in the plaster wall beside Tejeda who ducked back. Shouting, running, stopping and fir ing, the 100 "regulars" came on in fierce pursuit. But always a dodging, criss crossing screen of men ran between them and Tejeda. The town of Nicolas Romero was suddenly the field for a sinister football game. Tejeda...
...Moscow, near the west wall of the Kremlin, urchins used to run and play across a large unkempt field where once stood the Cathedral of the Redeemer. Lately, however, they have been shooed away by bands of surveyors, engineers, architects. The land was being inspected and groomed for Russia's latest and greatest monument, the Palace of the Soviets, which, when completed (perhaps in 1937), will be the world's largest and tallest building...
Died. Richard D. Wyckoff, 64. stock market authority, founder and onetime editor of the Magazine of Wall Street, editor of Stock Market Technique; of heart disease; in Sacramento. Thrice married, Mr. Wyckoff charged in 1928 that his second wife, Cecelia G. Wyckoff, present publisher of the Magazine of Wall Street, had wrested control of it from him by "cajolery." In a subsequent separation agreement both received half a million dollars of the company's bonds...
Just before Ferdinand Pecora & friends retired for redrafting last week, the bill received its first major attack from within the Administration. Before the House Interstate Commerce Committee, Assistant Secretary of Commerce John Dickinson, no Wall Streeter, denounced it as entirely too drastic, predicted "disastrous" results if passed in its present form. Particularly he lashed the margin requirements, esti mating that $380,000,000 of unlisted securities would be dumped from brokerage accounts, and another $350,000,000 of listed stock would have to be liquidated to satisfy the 60% margin. Such wholesale liquidation, he warned, might reverse the upward curve...
...exchanges that still cling to the old custom of calling off the full stock list 'at the opening of each daily session. After that, trading in the usual manner begins. There are no posts on the floor, each broker having his booth against the wall. All sessions are open to the public and only a low railing divides the visitors' gallery from the trading floor...