Word: walls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lights were dimmer along Manhattan's cafe-cluttered 52nd Street last week as "cafe society" showed the pressure of Wall Street's three-month fall. But people in the market are not the only ones feeling the pinch these days. Figures released from Hollywood last week revealed that between 10% and 20% fewer U. S. citizens went to the movies this October than went a year ago. As a result, one studio which had budgeted some $3,000,000 for new construction cut it down...
...house in order. No less than 15 versions of the letter were composed by the Exchange's law committee, sent to Washington and promptly sent back as unsatisfactory. Last week, suddenly losing patience, Bill Douglas issued a manifesto which not only answered President Gay but also confirmed Wall Street's fear that the onetime law professor is a reformer of unswervable purpose. Excerpts...
...last week it was apparent to even the most confirmed optimist that the U. S. is in the midst of a business depression quite severe enough to explain the 40% drop of the New York stock market in the past three months. But in Wall Street there is still much talk that the market's fall is due primarily to such "technical reasons" as lack of liquidity brought on by too much Government regulation. Regarded, therefore, as something of a seer is the Stock Exchange's President Charles R. Gay, who sounded off against Government regulation...
...forward wall lettermen will fill over two lines. Since the football players have reported quite recently, there are not yet any definite indications as to just what the combinations will be. But it is safe to say that Johnny Mechem, Ned Cutter, George Roberts, Austie Harding, Ralph Pope, Joe Patrick, Win Jameson, and Pete Stone will figure in the first two or three combinations...
...three dollars a year dues, and they have the right to assess you any time they want. You're no better off than you were before. A union is all right. It keeps men together. If it weren't for union the workers would get shoved to the wall, but the trouble is once they taste success they get crooked. They're all the same...