Word: walls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker out of the City Hall and into exile. Last week the followers of Independent Democratic Candidate Joseph Vincent McKee could match Inquisitor for Inquisitor with Fusion. On their ticket, as candidate for District Attorney, they got Ferdinand Pecora, counsel for the Senate's Wall Street investigation, quizzer last spring of J. P. Morgan & Co., last week of Dillon, Read...
...more especially the interference for the carriers. Only on one or two occasions did the team shake runners loose for gains. It was generally recognized that the Crimson had no consistent ground-gaining power. The Bates line was strong, however, and the statistics show that Harvard dented the forward wall for 239 yards, a creditable showing for any team...
...remedy this inexcusable situation experts have agreed that large areas of the wall and virtually the whole ceiling must be refinished, but that the desired smooth surface could very probably be obtained with several coats of inexpensive paint. The only conceivable argument for neglecting this work is the claim that increasing the resonance would injure the speaking acoustics. This objection is no longer valid, since Dean Sperry has admitted that the speaker now has an excessive advantage, most of which he could well afford to lose. There remains no plausible reason why the wall area should not be done over...
...brokers' exodus, the State would stand to lose perhaps $30,000,000 in annual taxes. Worse, the bankers were wringing their hands over what would happen to downtown realty values. The grass that Herbert Hoover had predicted under a Democratic Administration could now almost be seen sprouting in Wall Street...
...flight of the brokers ceased as suddenly as it began. And while Wall Street jubilantly referred to it as the "modern Boston Tea Party," New Jersey realtors plummeted into gloom. President Whitney of the Stock Exchange halted his workmen and negotiated a settlement with Newark's Mayor Ellenstein. The brokers' gesture had cost them some $100,000, but this they could easily meet with $100 initiation fees collected from the 1,300 applicants for membership in the proposed Jersey exchange...