Word: walle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unknown Nigerian who painted an insanely gay parade on a wall at Umuahia about 1935. UNESCO director-general Julian Huxley had seen it there, contributed his photographs of the mural to the show...
When the Kramer-Schroeder team was announced, Melbourne papers gleefully predicted that Walter Pate, the bright-eyed little Wall Street lawyer who has captained U.S. Davis Cuppers for twelve years, had made a mistake. Frank Parker, nationally ranked the second best singles player of the six Americans who made the trip, complained angrily because he wasn't chosen. At 1:30 p.m. that afternoon, when Schroeder strode out before 14,500 fans in Kooyong Stadium on a slippery grass court, the pressure was on him. He was to meet Jack Bromwich, Australia's big gun, in the opening...
Warming Up. But Jack Frye won over T.W.A.'s directors. They called a special stockholders' meeting for last week. Wall Street gossiped that Hughes tried to buy up the entire issue himself at bargain rates, thus cheaply increase his control to around 80%. When the stockholders' meeting was held, Hughes stayed away. Lacking a quorum, other stockholders adjourned. Hughes then demanded that six of the eleven directors resign, let him send in a new team, including a financial vice president. Told off again, he stayed away for the second meeting...
...volume: 79,400 shares) that it could no longer afford this luxury. But business has improved so much since then (daily volume is up to 516,700 shares) that Curb members decided last week to try again. Their choice (at $40,000 a year) : Francis Adams Truslow,* one of Wall Street's most knowing securities lawyers and the Curb's own counsel since...
...present none-too-healthy state, the fur industry could not afford to let Eitingon go to the wall. Other furriers rallied around. And with a $250,000 loan from the Irving Trust Co., it looked as if Eitingon might squeak through-given enough time. A not unconsiderable factor: mouton has held up in price...