Word: wall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...jurisdiction; 6) conscription of money as well as men in the next war; 7) full payment of the soldier bonus; 8) coinage of "enough gold and silver to meet normal demands"; 9) tariff reduction. Adopting this platform, delegates loudly declared that "the great battle of 1932 is America against Wall Street, special interests and predatory wealth." Governor Murray loosed a savage political attack upon President Hoover after which a quartet sang a new Murray campaign song entitled "Hoover Made a Soup Houn' Outa Me."* Already in wide circulation were "Murray-For-President" buttons and the Murray campaign slogan: "Bread...
Exploitation of student interests, non-representative officers and inefficient management are sending the old political faction form of government to the wall. College students are setting up the framework of government systems which are adequate and capable of satisfying the many needs of the present day student. In the larger colleges and universities, the student senate and council systems are being inaugurated to replace the old free-for-all but open-to-none class officer system...
...effects, the Glass-Steagall bill became all things to all men. President Hoover viewed it as one more expansion of bank credit, another move to quiet public alarm, restore confidence in banks and bring hoarded money out of hiding. Secretary Mills thought it would stop all further bank failures. Wall Street, as indicated by the stock rise, looked upon it as currency inflation which might turn the tide. Most anxious bankers hailed it as the "most constructive step" yet taken in the Depression. Conservative Republican Senators, shying away from its inflationary aspect, played down the printing press idea for political...
...Medal for his essay on "The Effect of Laparatomy on Lungs and Respiration." Beecher is from Wichita, Kansas, where he took his A. B. in 1926 and his M.A. in 1927 at the University of Kansas. Laparatomy is an operation in which an incision is made in the abdominal wall...
...Wall Street, where he works hard for the $141,028,000-in-assets Manhattan Co. group of concerns (Bank of Manhattan Trust, International Acceptance Banks. New York Title & Mortgage and others), young Mr. Warburg is the junior member of another "team." Its senior member is John Stewart Baker, 38, whose great grandfather was one of the Manhattan Co.'s founders 133 years ago. whose father. Stephen Baker, 72, preceded the late famed Mr. Warburg in the chairmanship and still lends distinction to its board, i Last week the Baker-Warburg team advanced to the topnotch. Young Mr. Baker...