Word: walls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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They arrived in Manhattan to sup at the house of a Lincoln student off Park Avenue. Next day, fresh-cheeked and inquisitive, they rode a subway to Wall Street, visited other business districts, the Aquarium, Bellevue Hospital (which awed them), Radio City, headquarters of the Consolidation (Rockefeller) Coal Co. (which owns some of their mines). In rapid succession during the next six days, pausing only to eat and take a few winks of sleep, Morgantown's children rode a tug around New York Harbor, where the girls hallooed at sailors on U. S. warships, inspected the Europa, bridges, power...
Last week Jack Frye and Paul Richter said they had big plans for expansion. But Wall Street and the world of aviation was more interested in how two up-from-the-ranks pilots financed the purchase of the 70,000 shares Lehman Bros, sold them. Jack Frye refused to tell. Rumors dwelt on Millionaire Howard Hughes and Cinema Agent Leland Hayward, who last month became a T. W. A. director...
...Tall, handsome Charles Simonton McCain, who has headed both the smallest and the biggest U. S. bank, last week resigned his presidency of $577,000,000 United Light & Power Co. to become a director and officer of Dillon, Read & Co., currently the most successful Wall Street underwriting firm. When Charles McCain graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Yale in 1904, he entered banking in his native Arkansas, soon founded his own bank in McGehee with $1,000 capital which he ear ned in his pocket by day, hid in a sugar bar rel at night. By 1925 he was vice president...
...collection is of secondary importance, however. What is far more pertinent is the fact that for the second time this year certain members of Leverett House have had enough practical initiative and aesthetic sensibility to remove the capital "A" from the word "art." An average painting hanging on the wall of a House Common Room is of much more value than a most highly prized Rembrandt which leads a worthless and dusty existence in the middle of a blustering and pretentious museum. A museum is a noble project but instead of hosing art, it has upon its walls well-framed...
There are also speeches by the voices of portraits on the wall...