Word: wall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With Mr. Mellon as Ambassador the necessary connection between Wall Street and Threadneedle Street is better established...
...Salvador, chased the rebels into the mountains, where they burned and pillaged villages as they fled. Foreigners hastened to leave the country. Many women took refuge aboard the Canadian ships. Airplanes carried refugees to Mexico, where they told a tale of 26 government officials being lined up against a wall and shot. Others fled to Panama, reported that from 600 to 1,000 had been killed in the uprising. They blamed the failure of the U. S. and other countries to recognize the junta government for giving the Communists courage to revolt...
...included. A room near the entrance has been set aside for the use of the Travellers' Club, a body of distinguished gentlemen whose interest in travel and exploration has drawn them together but who have been hitherto without permanent quarters. A prized furnishing of their room is a large wall map, much lined with red, representing the journeyings of its members...
...meets the two disciples who carry pilgrim's staffs. The Resurrection Cross has been badly damaged. Above on either side hover angels of extraordinary beauty. The one to the left rises from a foliage design on the left face, and the one on the right from the walls of a village, perhaps Emmaus, depicted on the right face of the capital. Three windows are in the wall of Emmaus, out of which lean various figures, while the city gate is represented by a small door locked with the key above...
...face, topped by white hair, frames a pair of cold blue eyes. Written in his own handwriting, President Farrell's statement said his resignation had been accepted by the board to take effect April 18 but that he would remain a director. Surprised were the steel trade and Wall Street because his retirement would have been automatic, under the company's new pension plan, when he became 70 years old on Feb. 15, 1933 (TIME, April...