Word: wall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wheels of trucks with balloon tires on them-commenting that balloon tires were not in use in 1918. Nevertheless, on the opposite page you give prominent space to a painting, Death of Socrates, in which the painter, David, represents the famous scene against a background of a heavy wall pierced by a round opening. Now I do not believe that arched masonry existed in the Greece of Socrates; that it first appeared in Rome several centuries later...
Strapped for cash, the city had tried to borrow in Wall Street. But the big bankers there, hostile to the dole and Mayor Murphy's "radical methods," refused all loans. Fortnight ago Detroit turned to its wealthiest citizen for aid, borrowed $5,000,000 from Henry Ford to meet payrolls. Last week a syndicate composed of Chrysler Corp., Packard Motor Car Co. and Fisher Finance Corp. agreed to advance the city $59,500,000 to meet its debts Sept. 15 provided it economized by cutting dole allowances. To save Detroit from fiscal chaos Mayor Murphy reluctantly consented...
John Pierpont Morgan declined to accept the presidency of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, an office long held by his father. Reason: "Pressure of business." Same day he announced he will leave soon in his yacht Corsair for a few weeks in "Wall Hall," his 16,000-acre estate at Alderham, Herts...
...game, often loses a set or two while experimenting with his oppo nent's weaknesses. As was Johnston's, his best shot is his forehand though until this year it was so undependable that he made j a habit of borrowing his friends' rackets, taking lessons, practicing against a wall when the trick deserted him. Two of his uncles are Watson Washburn, 19 21 Davis Cup player, and Julian S. Myrick, onetime (1920-22) president...
...company's history. There was also newsworthy selling of the stock on printed rumors that the company is not earning its dividend, and that Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. ("A & P") may enter the biscuit business. On the change of presidents Nabisco adopted an attitude of "no significance." Hence Wall Street whispered there was significance. On the other matters the company maintained a silence of which the late great George Fisher Baker would have approved heartily...