Word: walls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Secretaries Stimson and Mellon, as U. S. delegates in London, agreed to a 90-day renewal of the $100,000,000 international loan to Germany and to a proposition whereby bankers would refrain from withdrawing their $1,200,000,000 short-term commercial credits from the Reich. Though Wall Street scowled disapproval at these limited results and foreign exchanges declined for a lack of a more constructive plan, President Hoover declared...
...Save Us! Arab-Jewish riots, Wailing Wall troubles, world Depression, the death of two great leaders (Baron Melchett and Louis Marshall) and the slowing-up of Zionism's executive machinery made Dr. Weizmann's presidency a difficult one. But many delegates believe he was too conciliatory. Boomed bass-voiced Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise last fortnight at the Congress: "A vote for the administration of Dr. Weizmann is a vote for the present British regime! . . . An eternal disgrace! . . . You have sat too long at British feasts!" Trembling, still pale from a recent throat operation, Dr. Weizmann hurried from...
Last week President Merrill and three directors resigned without explanation. Wall Street tried to guess the reason. One possibility was that, although Remington Rand's profits have dwindled lately, President Merrill did his work well, is now needed by National City to jack up another one of its client companies. The other possibility was that National City may be retiring as Remington Rand's most prominent banking sponsor. For just as Chairman-President James H. Rand Jr. has built far beyond his father's original business, so has his cousin George F. Rand Jr. succeeded and surpassed...
Sunday in Wall Street. Through silent, Sunday-deserted Wall Street went the motors of potent men to the Italian castle of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. George L. Harrison, Governor of the Bank, had called an emergency meeting, Acting Secretary of the Treasury-Mills had come over from Washington. They called in Owen D. Young, expert, then Morgan Partner S. Parker Gilbert, expert. Governor Eugene Meyer of the Federal Reserve Board was handy at his home in Mount Kisco if needed. No statement was given out during the Wall Street meeting, but reporters hazarded that the questions being...
...Villa d'Ys slipped into Montreal under the tricolor, bringing its complement of 103 true-speaking French. Purpose: to help the patois-speakers to celebrate le quatorze Juillet, the French Day of Independence. Purpose behind the purpose: to cultivate French-Canadian feeling for things French so that they wall prefer French exports and travel to France by Compagnie Générale Transatlantique in greater quantities and more often...