Word: wall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three-hour flurry of fear lest Adolf Hitler become Chancellor of Germany and topple the mark like Humpty Dumpty off the Gold Standard, gave Wall Street a black afternoon last week. Leading Man hattan bank stocks dipped as much as 20 points. German 5½% Young Plan bonds (quoted earlier this year at $84) sold...
Germans were tardy about scotching Wall Street's scare. The Reichsbank in President Hans Luther's own good time denied officially that the mark would go off gold. Followed an official Foreign Office denial and at the Chancellery it was said that Dr. Brüning, far from handing the Government over to Herr Hitler, planned to attend the World Disarmament Conference next February as Chancellor...
...defend the interests of U. S. holders of German short-term credits against the demand of France that Reparations be given priority (TIME, Dec. 7). To Berlin just ahead of Banker Wiggin hurried Politician Hitler. Flinging himself into a big armchair at the Kaiserhof Hotel on the afternoon that Wall Street had its Hitler scare, he surprisingly declared: "Germany cannot pay both her political [Reparations] and her commercial [short-term credit] debts. For my part I reject the payment of political debts which are the result of extortion and have no legal basis. On the other hand, I accept...
...senatorial campaign was very expensive. Perfumer Coty lost partly be cause, misjudging the people he wished to represent, he dined publicly in Ajaccio with a Corsican bandit. In 1929 came the Wall Street crash and Publisher Coty's divorce. His two papers, the conservative Figaro and blatant Ami du Peuple, have lost money consistently. He lost more in subsidizing the unsuccessful Paris-Tokyo non-stop flight of Aviators Lebrix & Doret. The Coty perfume business has felt Depression. And last week the former Mme Coty obtained a court order forcing François Coty to pay her an additional...
...They paid $7,300,000. The deal brought an end to much gloomy talk about Manufacturers Trust after its proposed merger with Bank of United States had fallen through (TIME, Jan. 12). When J. P. Morgan one afternoon walked out of his little grey banking house at No. 23 Wall Street and dropped in to see Mr. Gibson in his new office at No. 55 Broad Street, Wall Street felt this unusual act was a confirmation of the impression that Mr. Gibson had the support of the nation's strongest banking powers...