Word: wallness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Look who stands behind him. . . . The manipulators of Wall Street are 100% behind Governor Landon's candidacy. They boast of the fact...
...boost by declaring that he had $20,000 to bet 2-to-1 on Roosevelt's reelection, boasting that he could find no takers (TIME, July 27). If he thought that his offer would be safe because he was at sea, he was mistaken. Robert B. Greene, a Wall Street betting commissioner, in a radiogram to the Rex, took half the Democratic financier's bet for a client. Next a Republican who voted for Roosevelt in 1932, Le Grand Bouton Cannon of Tuxedo Park, N. Y., hastened to claim the other half of the Gerard bet on behalf...
...cones were etched out of paper-thin sheets of copper picked up with a magnet. Dentists' picks and scrapers were used for modeling tools. Making rocks was the most fun. A double fistful of whiting and glue was allowed to harden, then hurled full force against the studio wall. The fragments, painted in oils and dusted with dry color, were rocks...
...Roosevelt apologizing for having called the President of the U. S. a liar. If Father Coughlin were statistically-minded, he could have buttressed his assertion with a list of the busiest U. S. banking houses in the first six months of this year, as compiled last week by the Wall Street Journal. The figures were less impressive than they used to be because security registration statements now reveal the actual amount underwritten by each house. Formerly, and even now with exempt offerings like municipals and railroads, the total amount of the issue was credited to each syndicate member...
Three years ago the ranking of Wall Street houses was a matter of indifference to everyone including the bankers. Total corporate financing for the first six months of 1933 was only $219,000,000, less than the 1936 originations of Morgan Stanley alone. This year the figure on corporate financing was $2,583,000,000; on all financing, including foreign and municipal issues but excluding Treasury operations, $3,635,000,000-highest since 1930. Of that total, however, only $866,000,000 represented new money. The rest was refunding...