Word: walls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...span through twelve Dry years, was "ready to produce the real stuff on a moment's notice." Other metropolitan breweries?Doelger, Lion, Schaefer, Loewer, Trommer, Piel?began overhauling their plants. Fidelio Brewery advertised its stock for sale with the observation: "Modification of the Volstead Act now seems assured." Conservative Wall Street brokers warned customers that good brewery stock was closely held, that the new issues were highly speculative. At the U. S. Brewers' Academy 22 grown men were attending classes of a technical course which would qualify them as master brewers next spring...
Four days after Christmas last year President Hoover plucked Mr. Davis from his office at No. 48 Wall Street, sent him to Geneva as one of the two U. S. Democratic delegates to La Conference pour la Limitation et pour la Reduction des Armaments. The Conference has proved disappointing, but not Democrat Davis. He has become indispensable to the President, golfing ably with Sir John Simon in England, slipping over to Paris for a quiet aperitif with Edouard Herriot, journeying to Rome for a naval parley with Benito Mussolini. Precisely because the U.S. Press has not yet caught up with...
...recovery. The first fact they recognize is that Europe is simply unable to pay in toto, that the United States, if she continues to dun to the limit, will get notices of default, repudiations and lasting animosity. Moanwhile, before those notices come in, she will be driven to the wall with the rest of the western world. If, for instance, the United States demands payment in full from Great Britain, the results may be prostration of the pound, further fall in world prices, further depression, all leading to a final complete stagnation of trade. Due to the fall in world...
...ousted board included Banker Charles Hayden, J. & W. Seligman. Partner Frederick Strauss, President Thomas Ignatius Parkinson of Equitable Life. Because Nathan Amster got in on the ground floor of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Ry. reorganization in 1917. is now a member of its executive committee, Wall Street was not surprised that the new board included two Rock Island men. Edward Norphlet Brown, chairman of the executive committee (he is also board chairman of stricken St. Louis-San Francisco) and Peter Gansevoort Ten Eyck. At its first meeting the new board chose Insurgent Amster as president...
...face as wrinkled as a walnut, Nathan Amster says he is "in the financial business." He emigrated to the U. S. at 20, prospected in West Virginia coal fields, drifted west, developed rich copper claims. Wall Street has known him as an independent financier and market operator. He was one of the first men to bull Boston & Maine during the early stages of its rehabilitation. Always keenly aware of the value of publicity, he once advocated consolidation of all U. S. railroads into one huge system...