Word: walle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pace-Setters. The hunt was a case history in government by pressure. The hunters were Communists, Zionists, Wallaceites, liberals, deserving Democrats who coveted his job, and gossip columnists-a faction as mixed as their motives. Henry Wallace was one of the earliest pacesetters, sounding the accusatory note: ex-Wall Street Financier Forrestal, onetime president of Dillon Read, was a conniver in a capitalist plot to plunge the country into war. The Communist Daily Worker joined...
...National Defense he stoutly defended this policy as necessary to protect the U.S.'s Middle East oil supplies and its vital chain of Middle East air bases. His critics did not give him credit for that kind of reasoning, whether it was wrong or right; they merely shouted "Wall Street...
Florida State Attorney William D. Hopkins said the death of young Baker, whose grandfather amassed a $100 million dollar fortune on Wall Street and gave $5 million for construction of the Business School, "doesn't look like murder...
...York. "No matter how many times you have seen it in pictures," he said, "nothing can prepare you for the sudden sight of the skyscrapers as the ship moves up the harbor. Its impact is terrific and unique." So saying, he was off to see the town-especially Wall Street, which reminded him of London's Lombard Street. He returned with cheering news for New Yorkers, saying he had found them "unusually smiling and helpful in a jolly...
Among poems read were "Ice and Fire," "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," "Departmental," and, by request, "Mending Wall...