Word: walls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Over the barber shop, on the wall against which Student Princip leaned, his fellow townsmen of Sarajevo have erected a handsome plaque: "ON THIS HISTORIC SPOT GAVRILO PRINCIP HERALDED THE ADVENT OF LIBERTY ON ST. VITUS DAY, JUNE 28TH 1914." In the cemetery outside the town is a tablet to "THE HEROES OF ST. VITUS DAY," Shooter Princip, Nedielko Cabrinovic, whose clumsily thrown bomb glanced harmlessly off Archduke Franz Ferdinand's shoulder earlier in the day, and Trifko Grabez who helped Princip and Cabrinovic get their weapons from Serbia...
Nash Motors stock had fallen to a new low for the year ($15.50) on the New York Stock Exchange when its directors met at Kenosha, Wis. and surprised Wall Street by declaring a 25? common dividend, after omitting payments last quarter. In spite of production delays caused by a strike in the Nash plants last April, Chairman Charles Williams Nash announced that sales since Jan.1 were 300% better than for the first six months...
...When Wall Street found that the President and Congress were going to impose stock exchange regulation regardless, it began pulling wires. It wanted a place for one of its own among the five commissioners who will boss exchanges and administer the Securities Act-a man who could temper the New Deal's belief that all boomtime deals were deliberate snares for the public, that all speculation was evil, that all stock profits were graft, that all "money changers" belonged rightly in Hell...
EYES IN THE WALL-Carolyn Wells- Lippincott ($2). The title phrase allows Fleming Stone his solution of three murders among Greenwich Village artists...
SHADOW ON THE WALL-H. C. Bailey-Crime Club ($2). Mr. Fortune foresees strange events, solves murder, finds a dope trail, in conversational innuendo, in his first book-length story...