Word: wall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...where is your room? Don't be funny," or by a blank and amazed stare and "I didn't know there were rooms here," spoken in such a tone that it is not difficult to see what the speaker is imagining, either some bleak little hole-in-the-wall tucked away behind the kitchens or a dim alcove in a dingy attic...
Following a conference with his economic encourage, the President has announced that the government will enter the European market for gold. Although this should have been obvious to all who had examined the basis of his program for the commodity dollar, Wall Street chose to pull a face long enough to upset the day's trading and between the money changer and the moneychanger an unpleasant altercation threatens to develop. More significant than this, however, is the effect which the President's action must have on the growing tide of economic nationalism. A frank and cynical attempt by a great...
...Cried Editor Hanna: ". . . Did any of you ever remotely think that the day might come when the Government would try to license newspapers as General Johnson proposed? . . . General Johnson was quoted as saying last week that it was ghastly humor for a Wall Street publication to point out how NRA has failed in the small communities. If the day has come when it is 'ghastly humor' for the Press to try to get the truth about the acts of its elected and appointed officials be fore the people, you just know that Democracy...
...session of the committee Mr. Aldrich, who was not a Chase official when the loans were made, strongly urged that the subject be pigeonholed in view of the seething Cuban situation. It might lead to more bloodshed. His request leaked out and a Washington newspaper reported that ''Wall Street influences" were trying to keep the Senators from their work. Mr. Aldrich, visibly agitated, demanded a prompt and thoroughgoing investigation of all Chase's Cuban deals, to clear the air. He demanded so insistently that Senator Fletcher banged the table with his fist: "We will...
...purpose of protecting, conserving and advancing the interests of the holders of foreign securities in default, there is hereby created a body corporate with the name "Corporation of Foreign Security Holders . . ."-Title II, Federal Securities Act of 1933. Wall Street found Title I of the Securities Act so onerous that the flow of long-term capital into U. S. Industry practically dried up. Last week Wall Street had the unmixed pleasure of seeing President Roosevelt forced to wriggle out of the equally unhelpful provisions of Title II. For when Congress passed the bill, it blithely overlooked the fact that...