Word: wall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...loan, expected to total between $3,000,000 and $4,000,000, will be made for one year at 5%. secured by notes of Amtorg (the Soviet State trading corporation in the U. S.) and further "unconditionally guaranteed by the Soviet State Bank." This tended to confirm Wall Street's impression that the R. F. C. will soon be financing all sorts of U. S. exports to Russia. While this cotton deal was pending Comrade Litvinov dickered through the Legation of friendly Poland with Rumania, Estonia, Latvia, Finland and Turkey-all states bordering the Soviet Union on the West...
...Curtis B. Dall. Broker Dall did not even appear at the White House during the prolonged stay of Mrs. Dall (''America's Sweet-heart") and their children "Sistie" & "Buzzie." Last week Curtis Dall and John J. Edgerton dissolved their two-month-old Wall Street brokerage house. Mr. Dall became a partner in Fenner, Beane & Ungerleider...
...since Wartime had short, narrow Downing Street been so jammed with reporters from wall to wall. A message from President Roosevelt was expected and delegates of the World Monetary & Economic Conference had been waiting all day for it. Suddenly the Prime Minister's motor car was sighted and word whipped round that the message had come. Scot MacDonald, alighting hatless in full evening dress, stepped inside and tried to calm the delegates, urged them by inference to go home...
Tunney. Seven U. S. millionaires composed party number one, headed by Wall Street's bear speculator Bernard E. ("Ben") Smith. They included Bernard F. Gimbel, head of Manhattan's Gimbel's; Donald M. Smith, broker (no relation) ; F. S. Argnimbau; Edward J. Flynn, Democratic boss of The Bronx and backer of Franklin Roosevelt; Eddie Dowling, comedian; James Joseph Tunney, financier-sportsman...
...After the fall of William Fox, his big film company was tossed gingerly about Wall Street for a long time. Several attempts were made to toss it to the public, but in the end Fox Film Corp. came to rest on the broad lap of Chase National Bank (TIME, May 2, 1932 et ante). Chase through its oldtime officer Edward Richmond Tinker tried to run the company from Wall Street, but after four months it called in Paramount's able Sidney Kent, made him president. Chairman Tinker stayed on to work out a financial reorganization. Last week Chase...