Word: wall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wrote a lot of it, it is natural that their fight for it is personally motivated, for even lawyers have emotions. Partner Cohen says: "If we have to become propagandists, we were driven to it." When Senator Tydings of Maryland or Senator George of Georgia snarls at "two little Wall Street lawyers who want the power to say who shall or shall not be Senators," they know well that their quarrel is not with Lawyers Corcoran & Cohen but with Client Roosevelt...
...with an English trot to study the parsing. Dante and Montaigne were the young scholar's favorite writers. From those golden days he carried away a store of literary sparklers which today he sprinkles through Franklin Roosevelt's speeches. From Justice Holmes he passed into the Wall Street law firm of Cotton, Franklin. Wright & Gordon. His take from the booming '20s was some promotion stock in a company he helped organize for one of his bosses. This stock became worth $250,000 but he could not sell it, still has it, depreciated but paying dividends. These...
...Exchange in the Crisis of 1914 and The Stock Exchange: Its Economic Function). Author Noble blames depression on wars, says that to blame speculators and the Exchange is to reason "that when a barometer falls it creates and precipitates the ensuing storm. . . ." Since 1935 he has retired from most Wall Street activities except lunching, has read Greek mythology and European newspapers, listened to music, cruised in chartered yachts...
...year's two biggest industrial loans (U. S. Steel's $100,000,000 issue in June, Standard Oil's $85,000,000 issues in July), part of Crucible Steel's new money will be spent on plant improvements. All told, the week's Wall Street financing reached $72,762,000, compared to $7,940,685 the week before and $39,675,000 for 1937's corresponding week...
...Wall-Mary Roberts Rinehart-Farrar & Rinehart...