Word: wall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Decorously the motion passed with not a single dissenting vote. Ninety-two Deputies abstained, but the 184 affirmative votes were stark handwriting on the world's wall : the largest State Diet in the German Republic had overwhelmingly endorsed repudiation of Reparations...
...Loans for the account of "others." Last week this third item, amounting to $162,000,000, disappeared from the money market in Wall Street. The Clearing House forbade its members handling these so-called "bootleg" loans. The money market, warned the week before of the impending change, held steady; the official renewal rate of 2% remained unchanged. The anonymous "others" who loaned their money in Wall Street were corporations and individuals with surplus cash anxious to place their money with absolute safety where it could be withdrawn at a moment's notice yet draw interest by the day, often...
...Crane employes, one-half to eight Chicago hospitals and charities. Birthdays, Hon. Katherine Plunket of Ballymascanlan, "Grand Old Lady of Ireland" (in); Patrick Joseph Cardinal Hayes (64); Representative John Nance Garner (62); the Pennsylvania Limited (50); Archduke Otto of Habsburg (19)-Died, John Walker ("Johnny") Pope, 32, famed young Wall Street operator; of a lung infection following whooping cough; in Manhattan...
...Miami, Fla., Mrs. Lucille McGirt cranked her automobile in gear. With her dress caught in the crank, dragging her with it, the car crashed through a wall into a doctor's office, where Mrs. McGirt died an hour later of a broken neck...
...extra-ripe display behind a curtain; or he may be held up at the exit to contribute to a "fund for the impoverished victims." Into such a "crime prevention" exhibit on Los Angeles' South Main Street two months ago walked one Hugh Plunkett. On the wall he found photographs of the body of his late brother Robert, secretary to Edward Laurence Doheny Jr., son of the oil tycoon, taken just after Robert Plunkett shot Doheny Jr. dead and killed himself in 1929. Infuriated, Hugh Plunkett tore the prints from the wall, had Proprietor Joe Gotch and five associates arrested...