Word: walle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wall of secrecy around the East-West talks in the Kremlin sprang a few small leaks last week...
...take Atherton's place, President Truman last week named Laurence Adolph Steinhardt, 55, who had made a fortune as a Wall Street lawyer before Franklin Roosevelt gave him (1933) his first diplomatic job as minister to Sweden. In the last 15 years, few U.S. envoys have had it tougher than Larry Steinhardt. After three grueling years as ambassador in Moscow (through the Hitler-Stalin pact period and the Nazi invasion of Russia) he had three tense years in Ankara. As ambassador to Prague, he had just returned from leave in the U.S., where he underwent a serious operation, when...
...Picture, That Lady in Ermine, presents Betty as an Italian countess (she is also an ancestress who conies down from her portrait on the castle wall-but no matter, it is only Betty again). She is struggling to save her domain from the grip of a handsome Hungarian hussar (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.). "It wasn't exactly down my alley," Betty confesses, "and it looked as if it might have been pretty hard for me to do." But the late Ernst Lubitsch, the director whose magic made exquisite comedy of Jeanette MacDonald's look of bovine bewilderment in such...
...lengthen "America's greatest highway," Wall Street last week made the biggest revenue bond offering in its history. Headed by Drexel & Co., B. J. Van Ingen & Co. Inc., Blyth & Co.; Inc. and the First Boston Corp., a syndicate of 217 dealers began marketing a Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission issue totaling $134 million. A third of the amount will refund the commission's present bonds. The rest will pay for extending the turnpike 100 miles eastward to King of Prussia, just outside Philadelphia...
Cyrus Eaton was not cowering in his corner. The charges, he insisted, "can only be characterized as false and malicious. They provide the final proof that the commission has completely become the tool of our Wall Street rivals, already facing anti-trust proceedings, whose business we have steadily been taking away by our honest, but unwelcome, free competition...