Word: wall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Citizens of Haiti who suspect that their newly elected President Eugene Roy is "a tool of Wall Street and Washington" had their worst fears confirmed last week when he began to act in a strange, un-Haitian fashion...
Docile and expectant, the crowd waited nearly all day in the hot sun last week, but President Roy had evidently plugged his ears to the voice of Tradition. It is not an old Wall Street custom to be lavish even with coppers; the U. S. Presidents' only observance of a custom in any way analogous is to roll hard-boiled Easter Eggs on the White House lawn for children to take home...
...eleven porters of the advance party on the morning's push to move camp one ice ledge higher. He was typewriting in his tent when: "... I heard the thunderous roar of an unusually large avalanche. Going outside I was horrified to see an enormous portion of the ice wall . . . breaking away and sweeping down the snow slopes below, on which was the climbing party...
...vote Senators were summoned from the stump and the sick bed. Democrats flayed the House for trying to dictate to the Senate, while Speaker Longworth and other potent Representatives stood along the chamber wall sombrely listening. First to a vote was the Debenture. Result: 43-10-41 in favor of recession. A dozen insurgent Republicans and six pro-tariff Democrats left their parties on this issue...
Before the War, Germany imported each year from Chile about $41,000,000 worth of nitrate of soda, valuable in times of peace as plant food, invaluable in time of war as the base of all explosives. When the War began, and the allied blockade raised a wall between the Chilean nitrate fields and the German munitions plants, the stocks on hand in Germany were worth $30,000,000. Without this, the War would have ended within a few months. With it, the greatest care had to be used lest the supply give out too soon. Savior of the situation...