Word: walls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...incident Wall Street saw a resurgence of the old question of what stockholders should know. While it is true that most stockholders do not analyze a company, the biggest ones do and feel they are entitled to adequate data. They feel that such an item as sales is not a real secret, can always be learned by a competitor...
Beside my desk on the wall there has hung since last March a clipping from TIME quoting Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes as saying upon the occasion of his 90th birthday: "Death plucks my ear and says 'Live-I am coming!' " Tonight's newspapers give an all too abbreviated report of his remarks upon his 91st birthday. I trust TIME will not cut his remarks severely, for they are usually so beautiful and mellow...
...full brilliance of disgruntled hindsight, upon the gentlemen who had conducted the country's international finance for the past decade. His speech summarized his conclusions on the Finance Committee's recent investigation of foreign loans. He had precipitated that inquiry, had cross-examined famed money lenders of Wall Street, had developed concrete arguments for Federal supervision of international finance. Without his customary shadow-boxing gestures he began reading his address. Excerpts...
...when suddenly he relinquished the executive office on the 47th floor of Manhattan's Chanin Building to a broad-framed young man with a grin and a pipe. It was not surprising that the name of the president-elect, La Motte Turck Cohu, should be better known in Wall Street than in airway operations. Avco, which has yet to show black ink on a profit & loss statement, is of prime concern to the bankers who underwrote its $40,000,000 financing and who own a large part of its shares...
Bandits could have entered the big banking room at No. 44 Wall Street last week without any trouble. One, two, three and they could have overpowered the taciturn, uniformed information clerk. They would, however, have been hard put to carry out any thievery. For the cash and securities that were in Bank of America, N. A., have all been merged with those that are National City Bank's. For weeks the big banking room has been dark, filled with row upon row of empty desks, cavernous, deserted cages...