Word: wallness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tortuous Trail- Noon of Dec. 13, 1934 two Wall Street runners barged into Manhattan's United States Trust Co., delivered $590,000 in 14 U. S. Treasury notes. A bank clerk drew them into his window, went off to obtain the securities the notes were to purchase. When the clerk returned to his cage three minutes later, the notes had vanished. Manhattan police were hopelessly baffled...
Devine Theft. On Jan. 28, 1935, negotiable bonds worth $1,507,938 vanished from the office of C. J. Devine & Co., 25 floors above Wall Street. Police made no headway until a stranger telephoned Detective Henry P. Oswald in Manhattan last month, hinted that the bonds might be "in Paris-Paris, France." From officials there, Oswald learned that a dressy mob was peddling U. S. securities at cut rates among U. S. expatriates. Another tip led to a beauteous blonde called the Marchioness Pia Ferrari Davico. Federal agents enticed the "Marchioness...
...prepare the book, died before it was completed. In 581 pages Mrs. Older pours out her wholehearted admiration for her husband's old boss. In a different vein, fortnight ago appeared Imperial Hearst: A Social Biography,† by Ferdinand Lundberg, onetime Chicago reporter and New York Herald Tribune Wall Street man. A charter member of the American Newspaper Guild, newshawks' union with which Mr. Hearst is perpetually at war, Biographer Lundberg entrenches himself on the economic Left and muckrakes his subject with pious zeal...
...guaranteed. All recent Land Bank issues have been sold to refund outstanding bonds with higher coupons. And since by law the Land Banks may charge borrowers no more than 1% in excess of the rate at which they themselves are able to borrow, Mr. Dunn as the farmers' Wall Street agent is now providing mortgage money...
Communists do not believe in heaven but they have their saints. John Reed, dead at 33, buried by the Kremlin wall close to the tomb of Russia's god, is already canonized. To such Harvard classmates as Red-fearing Hamilton Fish Jr., Reed was a traitor to his class. But even within the revolutionary sect his sainthood is not unanimously acknowledged. Upton Sinclair called him "the playboy of the social revolution." To sympathetic Biographer Granville Hicks. Reed's life is an ennobling example of how revolutionaries are made. Unbiased readers of John Reed will feel that Sinclair...