Word: wall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...make Prohibition a campaign issue but denounced it rationally, sailed into the Senate one of the biggest little men of affairs, of experience, of generosity of opinion that ever was seated there. People missed him last week. As sheaf upon sheaf of telegrams piled up from potent men in Wall Street, in Washington, in Mexico, all over the world, the sense of personal loss was very real...
...pomp and circumstances of all England lies trembling in the balance. Banks throughout America have no balance upon which to tremble. Short days ago the financial structure of Germany was undermined and the nation with her back to the wall stared over a bleak world. Empires, dominions, age hallowed institutions, and fair names avail nothing. No man can forget the greatness of these items...
...many a month Wall Street has known that "Something has to be done about Transamerica." Last week the big holding company's 217,000 shareholders received a lengthy letter from their bustling chairman, Elisha Walker. It told what will be done about Transamerica...
...Dawes Ames. Last week Phil Hanna returned to the same scene as editor of the Journal of Commerce. He will also have much to say in the Economist. For the last ten years Reporter Hanna has been a potent financial writer in Detroit, since 1924 Detroit representative of the Wall Street Journal. Also he wrote a weekly business editorial in the Detroit...
...that luck has been with the kindly professor in the investment of his slender salaries of many years, and that now he is a millionaire; but perhaps the credit should go as much to a shrewd head as to Latin. For when dog-eared copies of "The Magazine of Wall Street" and "The Classical Journal" fraternize on the professor's library table, who can say which should rest...