Word: walls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is a saying in Washington that the U. S. policy toward Nicaragua is handled at the State Department by an office boy. There is a sharper saying, among anti-imperialists, that the office boy is in the pay of Wall Street. An emanation from the State Department last week on the subject of Nicaragua appeared to prove the truth of at least one of these sayings...
Alone among the newspapers the tabloid Daily News (biggest circulation in the U. S.) vented its wrath in a stern editorial, betrayed the liveliest inferiority complex. It baited Messrs. Morgan & Morrow with representing both the U. S. and Wall Street in Mexico, and climaxed: "By such toplofty behavior Mr. Morgan only got himself into a scene where he had not been invited, and called attention in a most awkward and public manner to the close business connections between himself, Miss Morrow's father and the United States government...
...answered in a piercing wall "a Republican...
...everyone knows, stockmarketeers in Manhattan's Wall Street are traditionally tense. But it would be a mistake to suppose they never joke or jest. A typical Wall Street joke...
Thus stockmarketeers wives savored the cream of Wall Street's typical, traditional jest...