Word: walls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Starting Before the Shower, six jittery horses dancing and rearing under jouncing jockeys in the gloom of a stormy afternoon, while a wall of white raincloud sweeps up beyond the white curve of the track fence...
...Streets (Monogram), an anguished story of the slums, has moments of real understanding, but their effectiveness is lost in a confused effort to tidy up social injustice with a Lady Bountiful, a few rolls of wall paper, and the U. S. Navy. The burly boy of the streets is Jackie Cooper. A piping Skippy at 8, he is now 14, passes, with adolescent gruffness, for 16 in the film. Trying to get away from the slums, Jackie gets involved with gangsters, and when he finds little honor among thieves, joins the Navy. Meanwhile, a dark-eyed benefactress (Kathleen Burke) pretties...
Barney & Co. With the decline of Philadelphia as a financial capital the firm's centre of gravity shifted to Wall Street, and today it is primarily a brokerage house. For all its years Chas. D. Barney & Co. is rated as a progressive firm. It not only was one of the first Stock Exchange houses to start investment counsel service in a big way but also was among the first to realize that such service should be divorced from the underwriting and commission business. And last week Chas. D. Barney & Co. had the distinction of having its senior partner, John...
...Stock Exchange's "club" atmosphere and declared that "no element of the Casino should be allowed" (TIME, Dec. 6), Exchange members expressed their reaction by hooting, whistling and booing on the floor of the Exchange, crying "Casino!" whenever they had trouble buying or selling at a desired price. Wall Street's official reaction was a painfully courteous promise by Charles R. Gay. president of the Exchange, to look into the situation...
...Norfolk debaters were John Wall, Adolph C. Rosenthal, and Alfred Fortier; while those representing the Crimson were Paul W. Cherington '40, Jay W. Kaufman '88, and John A. Sullivan...