Word: walls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...held up the One Horse Grocery, tied up its two occupants, willfully shot one, fled with a few dollars. Around Boston and in Pawtucket, R. I. four cinema houses were bombed. New York police found no clue to the disappearance of $590,000 worth of treasury notes from a Wall Street bank. The victim of a New Jersey "ride'' was found frozen in a ditch near Matawan. And in Washington, 600 of the nation's leading criminologists, legalites, Government officials, social workers and law enforcement officers met for Attorney General Homer Stille Cummings' four-day conference...
Back in Melbourne for Armistice Day, Gloucester dedicated its great new Shrine of Remembrance to more than 60,000 Australians killed in the War, watched a beam of sunlight slant through a slit in the wall at exactly 11 a. m. and search out the Biblical inscription, "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." Day before he presented the prizes to the winners of the Centenary's biggest event, the London-to-Melbourne air races (TIME...
...London Naval Parleys were called for the express purpose of limiting naval armaments, and, by that method, to attain a certain measure of world security. A brief review of the results of the parleys will show that, Japan demanding equality, the United States and Britain standing stone-wall against such a demand in favor of the old 5-5-3 ratio, not even a start was made in the way of co-operative limitation and the conference adjourned a failure. This failure the Americans attributed to the Japanese; the Japanese, on the other hand, charge it to the Americans...
Last week at the 136th annual meeting at No. 40 Wall Street, Chairman Baker delivered his second "spirit of the times" bank report. As frank and full as the first, it was an intimate case history of a typical big super-solvent Manhattan bank in the second year of Roosevelt...
...second oldest bank in Manhattan first opened for business at No. 40 Wall Street in 1799. Unable to obtain a bank charter from a New York legislature which was under the thumb of Alexander Hamilton, a slick politician named Aaron Burr wangled a charter for a concern to supply the City of New York with "pure & wholesome water." As all the world now knows, there was tucked away in that charter a harmless-looking clause permitting The Manhattan Co. to transact any financial business within...