Word: wall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made three distinct efforts to put the bank on its feet by speculation. They speculated against the French franc, were fooled and lost heavily when Raymond Poincare stabilized and rehabilitated the money of his country. Second they invested in Dutch industrials, lost more. Third they got in on the Wall Street boom, making so much that, even though they lost much in the crash, Wall Street gave them no coup de grace...
...caused him sore grief. Thereupon Fascist youths gathered around the Catholic Students Association House, hurled stones, broke windows even as high as the fifth floor. Other irate Fascists mobbed a Catholic publishing house, hurled from its windows copies of the best-selling book Papa (The Pope). Wrenching from the wall a portrait of II Papa they dashed it from window to pavement crying: "Here is a traitor to his country...
Like most cinemas dealing with finance, this one reveals no great understanding of Wall Street methods, maintains an unnecessarily pop-eyed attitude toward the interesting but not incomprehensible maneuvers of stockmarket operators. On the other hand, it conveys the clear impression of a character who, if not much like the late Hetty Green, resembles somewhat the world's conception of her. Actress May Robson noticed how Hetty Green's mouth curved down in a hard line under a snub nose, how her eyes sparkled merrily under tufted, threatening eyebrows. An expert in makeup, she made her own features...
...frankly upped all her rates to match. France and England, though taking no action (except on cinemas in France), complained so loudly that much ill-will was bred. Australia's almost complete embargo was a nationalistic move after the U. S. pattern. Only a series of revolutions have checked wall-building in South America, but meantime ill-will has increased...
...Argentine speaker, Dr. Emanuel Malbran, Ambassador to the U. S. He pointed to the importance of Argentina's trade, which in 1929 took 40% of U. S. exports to South America. With chilly sarcasm, he spoke of the possibility that his country will raise a tariff wall: "In case it is adopted it should produce positive results, you would lose a good market. . . . but in exchange you would gain our gratitude for having taught us to make use of high tariffs. . . . It is perfectly logical that in my country they are thinking of following the example set by countries...