Word: walls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...What I'm supposed to be doing, is to find out if the NRA has helped big business, whether or not the little fellow is being shouldered to the wall. And then to see if the forgotten man is still forgotten...
...talked for a minute or two through his megaphone, his words carrying out to his charges on a stiff breeze and seemingly booming back from the Boston wall. It sounded something like, "Get more weight behind that catch." He turned again to his interviewer and remarked, "No, rowing isn't everything in a crew race...
There Partner Felix Warburg, a carnation in his buttonhole, summons the eleven partners to conference punctually at 11 a. m. on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. On the wall of his office is a portrait of bushy old Solomon Loeb who retired one year after Otto Kahn, at 17, began his banking career in Germany as a stamp licker. There is the big white Georgian partners' room, heart of Kuhn, Loeb, where "people just roll in and roll out again." There Otto Kahn worked under his father-in-law, Partner Abraham Wolff. There he became a U. S. citizen during...
...been a partner only five years. Today much of the work is done by Elisha Walker, onetime ally of Amadeo Peter Giannini, and by able Benjamin Buttenwieser, who, as manager of the firm's syndicate department, is considered one of the most brilliant young men in Wall Street...
...finally discovered his man's corps in the centre of the line, and was just being sent to the rear as a civilian when a Confederate bombardment blocked the way. When Pickett's charge came whooping over the wheatfields and up to the stone wall on Cemetery Hill Bale forgot he was a pacifist. Though history is silent on the point, Author Kantor gives his hero the credit of killing General Armistead. Bale found his man, not dead but badly wounded. The three days' fateful thunders had been too much for his mistress's conscience...