Word: wall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...finds circumstances altered. His hand trembles. Sevilla's servant has not been sent away as Derwent had planned, but is waiting in the pantry for his apprehensive master's signal. Worse, the girl, too, is in the house. The results of Derwent's manipulations with a wall clock may puzzle you, but if you think it over a while you will find that Playwright Armstrong has played fair. Cleverest twist to the whole bag of theatrical tricks occurs when Derwent saves himself from detection by impulsively blurting the only truthful statement he makes during the police inquiry...
Died. Hugh Bancroft, 54, publisher, president of Dow, Jones & Co. (world's largest purveyors of finance news and ticker service, publishers of the Wall Street Journal) and of Financial Press Co. (Barren's Weekly, the Philadelphia. Financial Journal, the Boston News Bureau); apparently by his own hand (coal gas poisoning); in Cohasset, Mass. A medical examiner said Bancroft entered a blacksmith shop on his estate, sealed the doors and windows, lighted a fire in the forge...
...will not lend them money to pay off such securities and the channels of investment banking have been practically inoperative ever since the securities law was passed. The administration as yet shows no signs of relenting and virtually every criticism on this point is brushed aside as so much Wall Street comment...
...condition and not a theory faces the government. The investment banking market is closed for all practical purposes and the banks will not furnish capital credit. Large blocks of capital are going abroad to seek investment. It is far from a healthy situation, even if Wall Street is expressing self-interest in failing at this time to engage in much underwriting...
...both parties with the same candy. To the farmers was to go the promise to raise prices further; to the bankers the pledge of a "managed" reflation followed by stabilization. It appears, however, that the bait tastes quite differently to different palates. Though the farmers may be slightly mollified, Wall Street is not. "The money-changers" are very unhappy about the whole thing. It goes against the natures of such simple idealists to be forced into the sceptic's position, nostrils dilated at the unpleasant aroma of a rat; but their hard business heads suspect that "managed currency" is just...