Word: wall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There was work for the Cabinet to do. In Manchuria, Japanese lines spread over the frozen land right up to the Great Wall, clinched their hold on all of southern Manchuria. There were reports that ferocious-looking General Gregory Semenov, who led a White Army against the 'Soviet in 1917, was conferring with five Mongol Princes about a plan for promoting the independence of Inner Mongolia. Because it failed to win the support of France, Great Britain or Italy, U. S. Secretary of State Stimson's strongly worded note citing the Kellogg Peace Pact and the Nine-Power...
...reputation now matches the rest of his legend. Because Auburn's common stock is one of the highest-priced and most sensitive on the New York Exchange, moving up or down anywhere from two to 15 points in a session, Errett Cord's name is as well known on Wall Street as in the Midwest. The stock's astonishing gyrations have given rise to many tales of pools and corners, most of them untrue. Mr. Cord declares he often goes three days without even looking at the market. At the peak of the bull market he was elected a director...
...wife, by confessing her evening in the cabin, secures a pardon for him but compromises herself so that her husband will have no more to do with her. The Woman from Monte Carlo has a few good shots?notably one of the enemy ship's searchlight flashing on the wall of the stateroom in which the lady is sequestered?but it is otherwise slim pickings. Aided by Walter Huston, in a mustache, as the captain, and Warren William, as an admirer, Lil Dagover is distressed by circumstances of plot and dialog like those which have hampered other recent debuts...
...Stephen Eaton and Otis & Co., held 42% of its voting stock and the Mellon-Koppers group held about 35%,. It was asserted that American Commonwealths had pledged its 10% in United as security for the Dillon, Read loan. Hearing that Dillon, Read & Co. had already disposed of the stock. Wall Street last week anxiously asked "To whom...
...even in Bull Market days was the upward rush of Goldman Sachs Trading Corp. common stock ($108 to $224 in two months). One day last week Goldman Sachs made another spectacular jump but this time only from $1.88 to $3.63. As soon as Goldman Sachs started jumping last week Wall Streeters guessed at what was coming. Last spring it became known that Tri-Continental Corp. was angling for a large interest in Goldman Sachs. When Tri-Continental ceased angling, it was rumored that Atlas Utilities Corp. was working out a deal...