Word: walls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mystery of M. Moreau. Wall Street bankers immediately realized that the Wiggin Committee had set their names to an Albert Henry Wiggin report. "Al" Wiggin, head of the world's biggest bank, has said before that Reparations and Allied Debts must be reduced before prosperity can return. He has said that tariffs, and the U. S. tariff in particular, are too high (TIME, Jan. 19 et seq.). Here were delegates from ten countries saying the same thing again under his chairmanship. The mystery was how Al Wiggin persuaded France's delegate, hollow-eyed, white-haired Emile Moreau...
...tackled it manfully. As a first step last week the War Office and the Admiralty sent telegrams to all military and naval commanders, the chiefs of the air force, suspending immediately and until further notice all contracts for military works. But here again the Laborites ran against a stone wall. Britain's great extravagance is the Dole. Liberals, Conservatives, businessmen, were demanding that it be cut. Trades union leaders and left-wing Laborites cried just as loudly that if the Dole was cut they would desert the party, kick out the Government. Cabinet meetings went on day after...
Montagu Norman remained in quiet Quebec, kept himself from being seen or heard. If he was conferring with Wall Street bankers, if he was borrowing more money for Britain, no word of it leaked to the Press. In the midst of the excitement, Secretary Andrew W. Mellon of the U. S. Treasury reappeared on the international scene by disembarking from the Conte Biancamano at New York. A flashlight bulb exploded almost in his face...
Alfred Irénée du Pont is 67, has one eye and an irascible nature. His 500-acre estate ("Nemours") near Wilmington is guarded by a high, barbaric wall. Firmly cemented in its top are great jagged pieces of glass. The gates are made of iron grillwork backed with steel sheeting. No unwelcome eye may look at "Nemours," no unwelcome feet tread its lawns...
...Chartered from stout-hearted George Mallory Fynchon whose Wall Street Firm of Pynchon & Co. failed last April. The Pynchon steam yacht Vasanta is now owned by Clayton W. Morse Jr., who renamed her Clador...