Word: wall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Johnson, whose NRA did not begin teething until after Congress adjourned last June, was troubled for months by the complaints of old guard businessmen, but not by the caterwauling of Congressmen. To be sure. Senators Borah and Nye wrote him protesting that NRA was driving small businesses to the wall and turning trusts loose on a career of price fixing. To be sure, they appealed to the President and were given to understand that the Federal Trade Commission might be given power to protect small businessmen, to restore some of the teeth in the anti-trust laws. To be sure...
...convicts headed by Life Termers Jim Clark and Bob Brady. Participants in the Memorial Day jail break, they seized Guard Deer's keys, locked him and several trusties in a cell, spent 20 minutes building a ladder, rushed it across the baseball diamond and climbed over the prison wall under cover of a fog and under fire of guards...
Fresh from China by way of the U. S. Navy Medical Corps this month came a vivid surgeon's-eye view of heroic Chinese resistance to the Japanese onslaught which swept down from Manchukuo, entered "China proper" through the Great Wall and stopped just short of Peiping (TIME, May 29, et ante}. Excerpts from the report* of Lieut.-Commander Morton D. Willcutts, M. D., the U. S. Navy's observer at Peiping Base Hospital: "The North China soldier rates a much higher military mark than his reverses of the past few months might indicate. . . . Only those wounded...
Died. David Lamar, circa 70, "Wolf of Wall Street." tipster, swindler, speculator, jailbird; of heart disease; in an unpretentious Manhattan hotel; age, origin and real name unknown. He appeared in Manhattan in the mid-nineties, fell in with an aged utilitycoon who soon lost five-sixths of a $6,000,000 fortune, soon blossomed out as a bigtime stock manipulator with a taste for hot birds, cold bottles, fast horses and the flashiest Broadway cabarets. So notorious were his corporate nuisance suits that J. P. Morgan the Elder denounced him as "vermin...
...Wall Street (In answer to the question whether a Wall Street plot had a closed the banks): I think it a wonderful fairy tale...