Word: wall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...turn the searchlight on the House of Morgan. The investigation has been temporarily halted until the Senate grants additional power to the Committee. This is seems likely to do, in view of the ready support it has given so far. Washington has shown that though it may be Wall Street's mistress, love blows alternately hot and cold...
Harvard men are superstitious. Yesterday a crew of carpenters engaged in repairing the roof of Wigglesworth Hall left a ladder leaning against the wall of the building in such a way that it slanted completely across the main path to the Union...
...Since then-though he belongs definitely to the more conservative branch of the family, in whom the prudent Payne blood runs strong-he has begun to blossom out as befits a young man with a fortune estimated at $100,000,000. Readily accessible in his office at No. 14 Wall St., he is not suspicious or wary of people who come to sell him things, but keenly alert for interesting and constructive ways to invest his money. He lost a lot two years ago backing a musical show for his artist friend Peter Arno, but the experience did not diminish...
...passenger and express unit, in the world."* He laid siege to Avco which, as a stockholder, he thought was being mismanaged. He felt it was worrying too much about its bulging portfolio of stocks, too little about its basic business of flying planes. He thought there was too much Wall Street atmosphere about the company, too little airport smell...
...estate of the great Widow Harriman bought more of the bank's stock. In 1911 the Night & Day became the Harriman National with Joe Harriman still as president. No scandal adhered to Joe Harriman's banking career unless it was that in 1923 the Harriman National, to Wall Street's horror, lent $100,000 to the United Mine Workers. The American Federationist (labor paper) stated apropos Joe Harriman: ''There are constructive minds and honorable characters in all walks of life...