Word: walls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hoover is an internationalist of the Wilson order. . . . Mr. Roosevelt is the same kind of an internationalist and so is Mr. Baker and so is Mr. Ritchie and so is Mr. Al Smith?all Wall Street internationalists...
This moratorium was no surprise. Wall Street has expected some sort of Hungarian moratorium for months. The fact that it turned out to be only a "transfer moratorium," with pengo payments continuing to pile up in Hungary, softened the blow. But a blow it was. U. S. bankers have extended and U. S. investors hold roughly 25% of Hungary's short-term credits and bonds. On the total U. S. investment of $179,000,000 the loss or postponement of interest and sinking fund charges during 1932 will approximate...
Fresco painting is an untransportable art. Frescoes are part of a wall. They are painted on wet plaster with water color paints. So that they could be moved into the gallery at all, these latest Rivera murals were constructed in steel frames. Even so they had to be set up. plastered and painted in the Heckscher Building itself. Rivera arrived in New York a month ago with his faithful plasterer Ramon Alva, his pretty little Mexican wife, the former Frieda Kahlo, and has been painting his exhibition ten hours a day. only stopping to drink great quantities of milk...
...Wall Street wisecrackers had a merry time last week, chortling over some wag's remark that "next we will hear of the failure of the Gloucester fishing bank." But in seaside Gloucester, where an ill wind is one which comes from the big Le Pages glue factory, nobody saw anything comical in that remark last week. For Gloucester's oldest bank, the Gloucester National, failed to open its doors, freezing fast more than $1,000,000 of good Gloucester cash. Even in old New England Gloucester National was a hoary insitution in its own right. When...
Immediate cause of the Gloucester trouble was that Gloucester National was one of eight Massachusetts institutions affiliated with Boston's Federal National Bank. When Federal was forced to the wall last week the affiliated banks in Gloucester, Lynn, Salem, Brockton. Lowell, Worcester, Cambridge and Lawrence followed. Total deposits involved were around...