Word: walls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...accordance with an ordinance passed by the City Council last autumn (TIME, Nov. 18), Chicago's clocks were officially advanced one hour March 1, thus putting the second city of the land on Eastern Standard Time. Pleased were La Salle Street financiers at their synchronization with Wall Street a thousand miles away. More pleased was Publisher Robert Rutherford McCormick, whose morning Tribune thus gained an additional 60 minutes to gather news and readers. Thoroughly displeased was Publisher William Franklin Knox, whose afternoon Daily News had to postpone its huge market edition one hour...
...dastards and not a regular army man. With the Empire cut off from the world as Japanese censors clamped down on cables and radio, the August Land of the Rising Sun or Dai Nippon (as Japanese poetically call their Empire) faced the World with a blank wall of sheer Mystery. In Washington the State Department, for all the erudition of its Far East Section, knew nothing for certain, was as much out of contact with Joseph Clark Grew as though he had been U. S. Ambassador to the Moon instead of Ambassador to Japan. The Department busied itself writing...
...sawed-off clubs he gave her, she qualified for the championship flight in the Minneapolis tournament a year later. After this her father bought her a new set. Patty liked these so much that she took them to her bedroom every night, stacked them up against the wall before going to sleep...
...height of the 1929 investment trust boom people were eager to pay $1 for the privilege of having $1 invested in their behalf by Wall Street banking houses. The extra $1 did not actually go to the investment bankers. But in the open market people scrambled to buy investment trust stocks for a price which was twice the value of the assets behind them. Assumption was that any banker worth the name could, in a trice, make at least 100% on money entrusted to his care. When it was belatedly discovered that banker-managed investment trusts could lose money just...
Special music for the production is being written by Elliott C. Carter, Jr. '30 using Italian folk songs as his theme. Masks and scenery are based on wall paintings from the period when mural art in Rome was most under the influence of the theatre. The stage setting itself is modelled after one familiar to visitors to the Pompeian room of New York City's Metropolitan Museum. The whole production will reproduce as closely as possible the actual atmosphere of the first century...