Word: walls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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National figures were few in the closing days of the Democratic campaign. John William Davis kept at it over the radio. James Middleton Cox strove along the Border. George Herman ("Babe") Ruth, famed baseballer, repeatedly told Midwesterners to disregard the Wall Street odds. "Don't forget Wall Street bet 3 to 1 against the Yankees in the World Series. Wall Street will be wrong again...
...Shrewd Englishmen of "The City"-London's "Wall Street"-weighed carefully what was said by Britain's chemical tycoon, Lord Melchett, upon his return last week from hobnobbing in U. S. tycoon-dom (TIME, Oct. 29). "American prosperity is based upon two factors. One is the large amount of money earned during the War at the expense of Europe, the effect of which was to enable America to remodel her old plants and build new factories. The other is the great productivity of the American workman, based partly on the greater use of mechanical power and partly...
...Hoover New York Journal (Hearst) defended Nominee Smith from the "Socialist" charge. Hearst Cartoonist T. E. Powers drew a cartoon called "Wall Street Socialists." An elephant with whiskers and a silk hat scowled at a brown-derbied donkey and said: "You're a Socialist!" The donkey retorted: "Me, a Socialist? Oh! Charlie, won't you loan me your whiskers...
...Hollywood, Universal Co. began to make The Five Frankforters, a story about the Rothschild family. Assistant director is Wilfred Rothschild, onetime Wall Street runner, member of the family...
...inability to cope with a forward passing attack. The University forces have spend considerable time on their aerial offensive during this past week and it is more than likely that Harvard will use this opportunity to practice this department of the game, especially as the opposing forward wall is far from light...