Word: walle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...secret that they were privately counting on the Cabinet to furnish some of their best bets. One was Princeton-bred, Wall Street-trained Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal, who some day might be Secretary of National Defense. He was geographically perfect, ideologically sound, would add tone to the ticket. His big drawback was that he had never even run for dogcatcher...
...Wall Streeters, who regard Sproul as one of them, were dismayed to find him backing up FRB Chairman Marriner S. Eccles, whose high-margin policy is cordially hated...
Many stockholders immediately let out a bellow against Bell. Loudest came from Wall Streeter Jackson Martindell, whose company, Fiduciary Management, Inc., owns or controls 14,300 Bell shares. So Bell dropped the stock option plan. With Edward R. Stettinius Jr., Martindell set up a committee to oust seven of Bell's board, charging Bell was not entitled to the benefits...
...proxy fight raged, Bell employees and the Buffalo Chamber of Commerce stoutly supported Larry Bell against "the threat of Wall Street domination." Actually, the best arguments for both sides were indisputable matters of fact. Last year Bell Aircraft had an operating loss of some $2,300,000 (reduced by tax carry-backs to $657,900), which would hardly warrant any new boosts for Bell. On the other hand, the company now has a backlog of $23,600,000, is in production on its new helicopter. It hopes to turn out 500 of them this year...
...century's three or four most remarkable writers is still practically unknown in the U.S. For Franz Kafka's unrelenting theme, told and retold in some of the greatest horror stories ever written (The Castle, The Trial, Metamorphosis, the stories in The Great Wall of China), was the nature of God and man's relationship...