Word: wall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...much thought and effort into his railroad speech. Its preparation began weeks ago in Albany. Baltimore & Ohio's Daniel Willard, Union Pacific's Carl Gray and William Averell Harriman had conferred with him on the subject. American Car & Foundry's William Woodin had contributed ideas as had Bernard Baruch, Wall Street's "White Eagle." Columbia's Professor Raymond Moley of the Roosevelt ''brain trust" had done his share of advising and researching. Circulated in advance among railroad men and bankers interested in rail securities, an early draft had received wide if silent commendation. The final address represented the composite thought...
...front-rank Canadian periodicals have come upon more or less better days. Prime reason is the Canadian tariff (as high as 15? a copy) on U. S. magazines, effective last year. Another reason is the depreciation of Canadian currency; after a U. S. publisher has scrambled over the tariff wall he finds himself accepting subscriptions in Canadian dollars worth U. S. 90?. Most important of all is Reason No. 3. Few U. S. publishers in recent years seriously went after the Canadian Cousin's subscription. The small plum of Canadian distribution found its way almost unsought into...
Divorced. Jesse Lauriston Livermore, famed Wall Street speculator; by Dorothea Fox Wendt Livermore, 37, onetime beautician, his second wife; at Reno, Nev. Few minutes later Mrs. Livermore married James Walter Longcope, onetime Prohibition agent, famed for spending $7,000 in Texas Guinan's night club in 1927 to get evidence...
Thereupon he put the box in a hole in the wall of the new building, and handed a marked brick to England's Astronomer-Royal, Sir Frank Watson Dyson. The Astronomer-Royal patted some mortar on the brick and with it plugged the hole-in-the-wall which contained the copper box. saying: "As is the custom of godfathers. I place the care of this magnificent observatory into the hands of its most capable parents...
...Press sniffed a good railroad story last week. A committee to look into railroad problems was appointed by the National Association of Mutual Savings Banks, the members of which own 13% of all railroad bonds. And vague rumors were afloat in Wall Street that Calvin Cool idge, Alfred Emanuel Smith and others whose voices could command the respect of investors and legislators, would soon look into the railroad situation. There was truth in the story, though its exact nature was probably to remain nebulous for some weeks. It was apparent that the railroads, a blight on the U. S. economic...