Word: wolfs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many a petty larcenist as well as on many a bold manipulator has been fixed the title: "Wolf of Wall Street." Last week one of the Street's oldest wolves, one who has prowled more than 30 years, was again in trouble...
Oldsters in Wall Street can well recall many a situation in which Wolf David Lamar has figured. Sometimes he has associated with prominent men. There was the time when he attempted to get an injunction against E. E. Harriman's voting a large block of Union Pacific stock, solely because Harriman, then needing votes, might have bought for a stiff price the Union Pacific stock held by famed Speculator Keene, Lamar's friend. Later he charged Union Pacific with false book keeping, caused Lawyer Paul Drennan Cravath to exclaim: "He is the most unconscionable of liars...
More famed, perhaps more fatal was Wolf Lamar's ability to impersonate over the telephone. Once he imitated Tammany's late Dan Riordan...
Nine competitors who received honorable mention: G. Dudley Mylchreest of Hartford, Conn.; Gordon K. Burns of Maplewood, N. J.; De Wolf Schatzel of Findlay, Ohio; Frederick C. Roop of the District of Columbia; Charles H. Cloukey of Lansdowne, Pa.; Walter Wrigley of Haverhill, Mass.; Gordon K. Carter of Charlottesville, Va.; James H. Compton Jr. of Wichita, Kan.; Royal E. Peake of Detroit, Mich...
...James De Wolf Perry, Presiding Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the U. S., reached London last fortnight to attend the Lambeth Conference of Bishops of the Anglican Communion (TIME, July 14). Last week Bishop Perry had a talk with the most Rev. Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury, primate of All England, ecclesiastical head of the Church of England.* The Archbishop told the Bishop something exalting: the Church of England has formally decided to recognize the Protestant Episcopal Church as the first Colonial Branch of the Mother Church, and to promote the Presiding Bishop from sixteenth place...