Word: wall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the War started by Princip shattered Imperial Austria, his province of Bosnia with its capital Serajevo entered the new kingdom of "Greater Serbia" or Jugoslavia, and the Great Assassin seemed from the point of view of his people a pure hero. They tore out a wall tablet erected in mourning for the assassinated Archduke, replaced it with a laudatory tablet to Princip, surmounting his name with laurel wreaths. Protests from abroad caused the Jugoslavian Government to order the Princip tablet covered with a thin layer of plaster, the official position being that it has been obliterated, while the populace...
...Elect of Mexico, returned to his home last week. A crowd of generals and a military band awaited him on the station platform, airplanes swooped overhead. Over the door of his villa ran the legend: BIENVENIDO ("Welcome"), formed of red carnations and asparagus fronds. Perched perilously on the garden wall were a number of orators from the Federal District Commission, loudly announcing that the next Mexican Govern-ment is destined to become potent in world affairs. Three hundred prominent Mexican ladies arrived in automobiles to give the Mexican embrace to the First-Lady-Elect of Mexico, Senora Carmen de Ortiz...
Paraffine Cos., Inc. (roofing, wall board, fire brick, paint): $1,486,000 (six months) as against $1,478,000 for corresponding 1928 period...
...secretly and told me they wanted to help but they dared not; that to come to my assistance at this time would bring down upon their heads the resentment and enmity of the most powerful forces on 'The Street.' They told me the gods of Wall Street had practically proclaimed my doom and that nothing on earth could prevent this great money-machine from mowing me down...
Last week George H. Burr, Manhattan banker, bought for $3,000,000 a 40% interest in the Denver & Salt Lake. "Others are interested in this deal," admitted Banker Burr. Who the "others" might be stirred much Wall Street cogitation. Arthur Curtiss James, the Lon Chancy of rail investing, was inevitably suspected of having engineered the coup...