Word: wall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Louder than ever boomed the guns of currency inflation last week on the Washington front. The dollar was down to 63? gold. Many a Wall Streeter thought this figure already discounted actual devaluation, doubted if direct inflation would boost prices appreciably or hold them up. Oklahoma's Senator Thomas, field marshal of the inflationary forces, was loosely threatening a march of 1,000,000 men on Washington unless there was a great outpouring of printing-press money. His polls of Congress showed a 20-to-1 sentiment in favor of quick inflation. Nevada's Senator Pittman tried...
...favor of the Washington Senators, with two out and the tying run on base, Oscar Melillo of the St. Louis Browns lifted a long fly to left field. Heinie Manush, Washington's fielder, started with the crack of the bat. He dived forward near the wall, rolled over on the turf, came up without his cap but with the ball gripped tightly in his glove, a brilliant catch that ended the game and, statistically, the astonishing major league baseball season...
...since 1792 when 24 brokers agreed to buy & sell from each other under the big buttonwood tree in Wall Street had the New York Stock Exchange taken such a momentous step...
...amongst itself, and in the background American interests which are sure to intervene if the workers on the coast and in the interior approach political control and confiscate "American" property. No government can stand for long without paying its bills, and these cannot be met without aid from the Wall Street bunch. This means eventually a conservative puppet party will come to power, since it will be backed by the sugar and fruit plantation owners. But how long could that party last? The forces which overthrew Machado will remain, latent perhaps if they are crushed this time, but ready, soon...
...dollar since last April? Continental money-changers, canniest of whom are reputed to be "the Greeks," delight in selling dollars short, but bankers know that that accounted for only a fraction of the drop. Last week from the British Commonwealth Relations Conference in Toronto came confirmation of what Wall Street has long suspected: that U. S. citizens have exported their dollars by the hundreds of millions...