Word: walls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Endeavoring to verify Mr. Arnold's statement that other departments of the University have stolen a march on the Business School in advertising their wares, the CRIMSON encountered a blank wall. Inner circles could recall no instance but admitted the possibility...
Last week in its 137th year Roosevelt & Son announced a complete breakup in anticipation of the provision of the Banking Act of 1933 which requires private bankers to segregate their banking business from their securities business before next June. Thus the oldest investment firm in Wall Street became the first to submit to the new Roosevelt rule...
Aside from the split-up of Roosevelt & Son, the turn of the year brought few important shifts in Wall Street's personnel. Ralph Wolf and Leon H. Kronthal retired from the old house of Speyer & Co. and three new partners were admitted-Henry Herrman and Charles G. Stachelberg, both long associated with the firm, and George Nelson Lindsay, onetime vice president of Bancamerica-Blair Corp. And John Daniel Hertz was taken into the banking house of Lehman Brothers...
...Wall Street wags last week insisted that the only reason the House of Morgan took in no new partners on Jan. 1 was that the firm could find no one who would join. The Senate Banking & Currency investigation, they said, had stripped all glamour from a Morgan partnership. But admittance of a new Morgan partner is by no means an annual event. Last one to sign the articles of copartnership was Charles Denston Dickey two years...
...school paper, and Oxford, where he was president of the University Dramatic Society and editor of the Isis (under graduate weekly), Peter Fleming got a formal education that well fitted him for a literary editor's desk. But. instead, after leaving Oxford he went to Manhattan, worked in Wall Street for several months during the summer of 1929. He disliked it, went to Guatemala as a railway in spector, then back to London to work for a Cabinet committee, "writing monumental treatises on the tsetse fly and the trawler fleet." He joined the staff of the London Spectator, became...