Word: walling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Galloping Backward." Indignantly, the Democratic Party took up the challenge. With a pearl-grey fedora planted symmetrically on his grey-fringed head 71-year-old Herbert Lehman, Dulles' opponent, stumped the state. A Wall Streeter himself* for ten years (1933-43), an able governor of New York, Candidate Lehman went down the line for the Fair Deal, with occasional speechwriting assists from old Roosevelt Speechwriter Judge Sam Rosenman...
...workers [of Yugoslavia] have long since discerned the repulsive and vile snout of the Belgrade deserter to the camp of imperialism, hireling spy and murderer, bankrupt fascist traitor to his country and to the cause of Socialism." The people are not deceived, said the Literary Gazette, when "the Wall Street gentlemen spare no dollars to make the insolent dwarf Tito appear a giant...
Tawdry Strings. Over the years moonfaced Judge Armstrong began to interest himself in other matters besides making money. He set up the Judge Armstrong Foundation and began writing pamphlets. One of them (Zionist Wall Street) was a bitter, loudmouthed attempt to prove that "Zionist Jews caused both world wars...
...nose-thumbing defiance of all the gloom over strikes (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), the market blithely kept on rising, for the fourth week in a row. With a 4.1 point gain during the week, the Dow-Jones industrial average broke through the high mark (190.19) of a year ago, when Wall Street confidently expected a Republican victory, and reached...
There was hardly anybody who did not know somebody who had made a killing in the market. And last week, exactly 20 years after the era of wonderful nonsense suddenly collapsed, there was hardly anybody in Wall Street old enough to remember, who did not shiver a bit at the memory of October...