Word: walls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after the 1934 Republican-Socialist rebellion, was fined 32,000,000 pesetas and sentenced to death for being "ideologically responsible" for the rising. The death sentence was commuted to 30 years' imprisonment, but for good measure some officers of the Foreign Legion hanged Javier Bueno from the wall of his office in a harness of barbed wire and fed him copies of his Avance. Bueno got out of prison in the general amnesty that followed the 1936 elections and refused to join Largo Caballero's revolutionary movement. But when the Right revolted a few months later, Javier Bueno...
...separate resolution to preserve it. This suggestion got nowhere. But it and other speeches took up time. In reply to Mr. Roosevelt's outburst at Hyde Park, Mr. Vandenberg said: "I wonder if our distinguished Executive realized precisely what he was saying . . . that when Congress controls money, Wall Street controls...
...cast," Herr Hitler was quoted as saying. "We cannot retreat now. Our backs are against the wall. It is not a question of knowing if I am right or wrong in posing so brutally the Danzig question. What is done is done, and we must accept the consequences. We must have our way, whatever the cost, in the few weeks which still separate us from the autumn months...
...radio as the highest-paying industry in the U. S. Of its 1938 payroll of $45,663,757, some 18,300 full-time employes averaged $45.20 a week, 4,000-odd part timers, $23.55 weekly. This put radio, by comparison with 1937, a cut above cinema ($41.33), well above Wall Street ($34.47), way above manufacturing...
...Until last week Wall Street wags were describing 1939's spring bull market as the one that walked away from the steel stocks and left them right where (some below) the last bear market had flung them. Last week the market ended its sorriest month in 18 years (11,967,390 shares traded), was slipping back toward depressed steels: after the rail stocks failed to Dow-confirm June 10's industrial high of 140.14 (TIME, June 26), the industrials had fallen more than 10 points...