Word: wall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...next President He'll be the next President He'll be the next President. He's with us tonight. Waving a copy of the U. S. Constitution Governor Murray declared: "The next President must not be reared in the shadow of Wall Street. Such a man has no more conception of the Mississippi Valley than Satan has of the Kingdom of Heaven. . . . We've got to quit voting for lodges and churches and the geography that runs along the Harlem River and has a connection with Europe. . . . The common people are like a mule, young...
...passageway connecting the western and central stairways in Baker Library on the second floor will soon provide an uncongested passage for men going or coming from upper floor classes. A partition wall cutting off the northern end of some little-used offices is being constructed to make this hallway come between the south side of the main reading room and the offices. According to Assistant Dean Esty Foster '21, this hall will not only lesson congestion on the western stairway by providing two routes for students going to and from upper floor classes, but will also make the reading room...
...last saw de Bosis some five years ago in his studio in the old wall of Rome. He had inherited the studio from Sir Moses Ezekiel, an American sculptor. Sir Moses, he told me, had been a second father to him after the death of his own sire, who was a well-known Italian poet...
...Widow Caraway behaves as her husband did in the Senate, she will seldom sit down in her seat. Instead she will clasp her hands behind her back and pace, shoulders hunched, up & down the aisles, back & forth in front of the lounges along the Chamber's rear wall. She will purse her lips, frown as though deep in thought, halt now & then to fix some speaking Senator with a sharp, doubtful glance. From time to time she will address the Chair to interject some comment, acid-humorous in intent-for her husband was the Senate's conscientious sarcastigator...
...Williamson, president of Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, who will be succeeded by Ralph Budd, president of Great Northern Railway. This triple play among major railroads spelled the end of Mr. Crowley's leadership of Central, although he still remained a director. Ill health was given as the cause but Wall Street whispered that "Pat" Crowley had lost his fight with Central's bankers over Pennsylvania Railroad's desire for Nickel Plate trackage rights along Lake Erie (TIME, Oct. 12). Son of two Irish immigrants, with no schooling after the grammar grades, President Crowley followed the storybook route to success. His first...