Word: wallness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crowded into the provincial liquor store of Sarnia, Ont., just across the St. Clair River from Port Huron, Mich. Into the shop stepped two holdup men, one small and wizened, the other masked with a black silk handkerchief. Both waved revolvers, made the customers line up face to the wall while the larger bandit climbed the wire partition to the cashier's drawer, scooped up the cash, climbed back again, ordering all the customers to file into the liquor room. What happened next was best described by one Jack Cosley, who had been buying two bottles of wine...
...Presidential election the Supreme Court has thrown a bomb into the lap of the American people which should do much to crack the wall of adoration surrounding the Constitution. The five-to-four decision invalidating the New York minimum wage law for adult women shows that from now on "due process of law" will be as effective in preventing the individual states from enlisting social legislation as it was when Congress tried to do the same for the District of Columbia in the twenties...
Pittsburgh's market, which grew out of an oldtime oil exchange, is housed in a one-story building on Fourth Avenue, Pittsburgh's Wall Street. About $30,000,000 worth of stock changed hands there last year, giving it ninth place in the list of registered exchanges. Most active stock last year was Carnegie Metals, which has nothing to do with steel. The company owns gold and silver mines in Mexico. Another Pittsburgh favorite is San Toy Mining, which also owns Mexican mines. One hundred shares of San Toy cost $2. President of the Pittsburgh Exchange is Ralph...
...unable to run them his way, he moves. His latest move roots back to a shake-up which occurred in C. W. Young & Co., nearly a year ago. His backer-directors felt, among other things, that the firm was growing too big to be a one-man show. From Wall Street they summoned two new vice presidents, Robert W. Sinsabaugh, a onetime Central Hanover Bank & Trust official, and E. Thurston Clarke, head of the investment department of J. P. Morgan & Co. These two men were brought in to relieve Mr. Young of some of his responsibilities. When Mr. Young finally...
...betray himself, his comrades. In the darkness, he makes speeches, imagines music. After a while he feels the risk of insanity too near, decides to kill himself. But his finger nails are not yet sharp enough to open a vein; he tries to sharpen them on the wall, then sees he will have to let them grow a little longer. Finally he hears a tapping on the wall, makes out the fragment of a message: TAKE COURAGE ONE CAN ... The message is interrupted by the muffled noises of guards beating someone; there are no more taps. With no explanation, Kassner...