Word: wall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when his first wife divorced him in 1923, Bill Bullitt married the widow of John Reed, the U. S. Communist who went through the Russian Revolution, wrote Ten Days That Shook the World, died of typhus in Moscow and was buried with highest Soviet honors in the Kremlin wall. The new Mrs. Bullitt, an out-and-out Red. appeared in Philadelphia in Russian costumes complete with high boots. Before Mr. Bullitt divorced her in 1930, she encouraged him to expose the foibles of his class in It's Not Done, a slashing novel in which scandalized Philadelphians thought they...
...crashed under the weight of realities. ... Is this a prolog to a new international morality? . . . The Republic of the Stars and Stripes ... is the supreme conciliator of extreme contradictions, such as puritanism and Hollywood or such as the thrift of the farmers of the West and the audacities of Wall Street...
Secretary of Commerce Roy Dikeman Chapin was "capable, likeable-a business man." Secretary of Agriculture Arthur Mastick Hyde "had a horror of short-selling of stocks which Wall Street couldn't quite share, but he made his contributions to the achievements of the Administration." Secretary of Labor James John ("Puddler Jim") Davis was "quick-acting, a good fellow. He has not been found guilty of any crime in connection with the Moose. His successor [the late William Nuckles Doak] was of a little higher type, I think...
Michigan's kick-blocking ends and Halfback Herman Everhardus' toe again helped to keep Michigan on the Humpty Dumpty wall. Everhardus booted a field goal against Iowa, kicked the extra point after Bill Renner had forward-passed to a touchdown. Left End Ted Petoskey crashed through to block the kick-for-point after Iowa's touchdown...
When the investigating U. S. Senators resumed writing their book of Wall Street Revelations in Washington last week, they had a lot of fun with their swart, persistent Inquisitor Ferdinand Pecora. He had just taken a drubbing as candidate for District Attorney of New York County (see p. 16). Inquisitor Pecora said he was "relieved." Dampened not a whit he ripped into the ever-widening circle of horrid-sounding facts that his staff had delved from Chase National Bank's voluminous books...