Word: wall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long finger at white-crested Bernard Mannes ("Barney") Baruch. Mr. Baruch contributed $61,000 to the campaign. By rights the job was his. But Mr. Baruch, now 62. evidently does not want it or any other. He may prefer to be an informal dictator of Democratic policy from the Wall Street side lines...
...Louis, told to get her mind off her troubles. Mrs. Edward E. Wall played solitaire for seven years, playing seven varieties, 65,707 games...
...Wall Street admits that Old Man Venner is probably without a legal peer in corporation transactions. He used to thumb over documents himself but now maintains a sizeable research staff. Intensely secretive, only he can tell how many of his big suits were settled out of court. Officials of a company with branches scattered throughout South America remember that a Venner disciple discovered he was entitled, as a stockholder, to inspect all the books-and demanded his right. After balancing the costs of transporting records from all its remote branches to Manhattan and back, the officers decided...
...nothing but a Roosevelt sweep ahead. As if in a final gesture of desperation the President had dashed across the continent to add in person one more much-needed vote to his California total. Two million good Republican dollars had been poured into what looked like a fruitless campaign. Wall Street, Eastern Industry and Society were earnestly, almost desperately for the President-but they did not seem enough to blast loose the rock of discontent sunk deep in the electorate at large. The last week of the Republican campaign was much like the first-only hotter. Every member...
Better Bankers. Three years ago the first signs of weakness in Wall Street sent members of the Investment Bankers Association scurrying home from the convention at Quebec. They arrived in time for the first big stockmarket break, the anniversary of which came last week (16,410,000 shares, ticker two and one-half hours late, Telephone at 204 -28, Allied Chemical at 204 -14. "Leaders Confer, Find Conditions Sound"). Last week nothing broke up the convention. They heard Arthur Atwood Ballantine, Undersecretary of the Treasury, make such observations as: "What the position of the Government will...