Word: wall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Swede on Palestine. In Stockholm Judge Loefgren, chairman of the League of Nations Wailing Wall Commission, accused Jews of forgetting Britain's promises to the non-Jewish population of Palestine. "It may be," he declared, "that two promises equally valid are simultaneously impossible of fulfillment." (i.e. Britain may have promised both Jews and Arabs more than she can give them both at once...
...years we have waited for a perfect design for Lenin's mausoleum but none has been forthcoming. All that time I have worked to improve the original design. ... I made hundreds of' sketches, plans and colored drawings showing how the tombs would harmonize with the ancient kremlin wall behind it in color, shape and line until the Central Committee finally was satisfied. . . . The color scheme is symbolical, black, red, and grey -black and red being the Soviet mourning colors with grey as the workers' color." On the lowest step of the tomb stood the leaders of Communism...
...distress is rife and is touching the pocketbooks of Harvard men. Perhaps, with increasing unemployment and men out of work even in Wall Street the Somnolent Cambridge atmosphere may be acrid with the smoke of bullets...
...this has caused a swarm of Pierce legends in Wall Street. Two samples: Last summer on a very hot day the Pierce men were granted permission to remove their jackets. One unfortunate fellow wore suspenders. A special consultation was held regarding the desirability of his exposing this condition. . . . One employe had to take his invalid wife to the hospital every Tuesday at 2 p.m. He had permission to do this, but was warned to come back always and check out daily with the others "for appearances' sake...
...Whitney mounted the rostrum and trading was halted while he announced that two members had been found guilty of highly improper conduct, expelled. The men were G. Lisle Forman and Morrison B. Orr, floor partners of the recently insolvent firm of Prince & Whitely (TIME, Oct. 20). Already shocking to Wall Street, the affairs of Prince & Whitely loomed even more unpleasant after this official verdict...