Word: walls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thomas Hart Benton received $16,000 for the remarkable murals of American life which he painted on 1,000 square feet of wall surface in Missouri's capitol at Jefferson City. Also full of salty realism was his autobiography, An Artist in America. A Kansas City real-estate operator named Howard Huselton read the book till his eyes popped, found it "sensual, gross, profane, vulgar." It seemed a parlous thing to Mr. Huselton that the author of such a work should be instructor at the Kansas City Art Institute. Round to the Institute's board of governors pattered...
...stock. Inventors of explanations had full scope for their talents. For last week something hit the Stock Exchange with an elevating power like that of a volcano erupting beneath it. In the entire previous week only 1,700,000 shares had been traded, smallest full week since 1921, and Wall Street was as gloomy as only that particularly volatile spot can be. Then one morning as customers' men straggled long-faced to their desks, telephones began to ring...
Franklin Roosevelt's first job was as clerk in the Wall St. law offices of Carter, Ledyard & Milburn, but that firm is prouder of the fact that in its 55 years as counsel to the New York Stock Exchange, it never lost a case. Neither fact, however, moved the Stock Exchange's Acting President William McChesney Martin Jr. and the "Reform" party. Their new brooms are sweeping out the "Old Guards" of ex-President Charles R. Gay who were uncompromising toward SEC. Roland Redmond, senior Carter, Ledyard partner, was a great & good friend of Richard Whitney...
...Wall Street this easy sale, in a period when stock flotation had never been so difficult, produced two reactions. Financial World dubbed Philip Morris "a coming blue chip." Cynical tobacco stock specialists, however, were still unconvinced. Noting that more than two-thirds of Philip Morris sales are urban, they wondered whether, with its sophisticated slant, it would ever have truly national appeal. And they shook gloomy heads over the action of New York City (where Philip Morris sells one-fifth of its smokes) in imposing a 1? a package cigaret tax two months ago. Other cigaret companies could pass this...
...invented a splint for broken jaws and aluminum binders for bulging arteries. He discovered safe ways of operating in cavities of the chest and sure ways of testing for blocked circulation in fingers and toes. Probably his boldest procedure (the Matas Operation) is to slit the paper-thin wall of an artery which is about to burst, stitch the walls together like a seamstress taking in a pleat, and leaving the artery with a normal size bore. Last week's was the most recent of many honors for Dr. Matas...