Word: wall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week 30 spectators flattened their noses curiously, against a bullet-proof glass wall in California's San Quentin prison to watch a preview of a lethal chamber which its makers, Eaton Metal Products Co. of Denver, thought would end all such doubt. Resting on a chair inside was a cage in which waited a small, reddish-brown pig. When a lever was pulled, dropping 16 cyanide eggs into pans of sulfuric acid, thin blue fumes began to rise toward the cage. The pig jumped, squealed, flapped its ears, rolled over. Like Allen Foster, the San Quentin pig died...
...History and Government, for the one in History and Economics, and for the one in Government and Economics. Government Regulation of Industry is the most popular; International Relations and American Constitutional History are next. In theory their scope must be extensive in order to allow a student enough wall space to hang his knowledge, yet in eight years of experimentation examiners have found that in practice they become merely repititious tests of course material. This ill situation may be cured in one of two ways, either by abolishing correlation exams or by improving them. The latter, because of Harvard...
...shaped Garden Clubbers who descended on Manhattan's annual Flower Show. One of the few New Yorker satirists whose style has resisted fashion for a decade, Hokinson's workshop is her bedroom, in a neat little apartment on Manhattan's Beekman Place. On her living-room wall are two glossy, old-fashioned American landscapes which she picked up in Connecticut last summer for $7. She calls them her van Goghs...
Because talk was blossoming in reform circles of need for a new legislative purge of Wall Street as a result of the Whitney scandal, Assistant Attorney General Ambrose V. McCall took occasion as Richard Whitney finished his guilty plea to declare: "On the contrary, the Whitney case is the result of regulation that is stopping a practice that was apparently widespread in pledging customers' securities...
...case last week-Campagnoli & Co., a house dealing in over-the-counter securities for a highly reputable clientele. Last week suave President Hugo Campagnoli and two associates pleaded not guilty to 28 counts for practices almost identical with Richard Whitney's. When Broker Whitney did it, Wall Street quaked and the press howled. But Broker Campagnoli had never been president of the Exchange and newspapers last week gave him scant attention. Circulated by cynical Wall Streeters, meanwhile, was one of the definitions in Samuel Johnson's dictionary: "Brokers, who, having no stock of their...