Word: wall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Into the great entrance hall of the White House last week tramped overalled workmen who began to bang and hammer on the left wall. Coming out of his cubby-hole office off the hall, Irwin...
Hoover, chief White House usher, super vised the work, offered suggestions. From the right wall across the hall a luminous Calvin Coolidge in oils eyed the proceed ings coldly. When hooks were imbedded in the left wall, a large framed picture was swung up into position. The workmen went away. Usher Hoover returned to his office. The next time President Hoover passed through the hall he noticed that an official portrait of Warren Gamaliel Harding had been hung...
...week, including all the Great Powers concerned. In examining these replies observers noted first the great modifications in the plan made by M. Briand himself. Originally he called it the "United States of Europe," and an impression was general that around this European federation would be built a tariff wall against the U. S. Before submitting his plan for general consideration however, M. Briand changed its name to The European Union, then gave this a diplomatic instead of an economic twist by proposing that the "E. U." consist primarily of a council & secretariat similar to those of the League...
...SAID TO MR. MORGAN-Michael Shepard-Greenberg ($2). In this not too sprightly, not too spiteful burlesque, Author Shepard chaffs the (now temporarily defunct) smalltime Wall Street operator who makes a few lucky killings in a bull market and fancies himself a financier. On the side and from time to time he also chaffs men of less strawy mold, notably Banker Charles Edwin Mitchell (National City) for his extremely bullish utterances, his apparent unawareness of what was going on, just before the late great stockmarket crash. Otto Munson, umbrella-rib manufacturer, sells his business for $20,000 and buys everything...
...Museum, of the travels in Libya of Archeologist Count Byron Khun de Prorok, whose excavations are made conceivable to non- archeological audiences by the explanation that he is looking for the golden tomb of the White Goddess of the Sahara. Some of the things his camera sees are "the Wall Street of Carthage," a bleak row of empty stone buildings; amphitheatres where the lions of Libya enjoyed Christians; the place where Cato committed suicide; a strange unknown city called the City of Fear, buried in the middle of the Sahara. The houses of this city, built in a country where...