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Movements are already afoot it is understood to make another attempt for state or federal and by putting through the legislature a bill providing for financing and erection of the bridge and the accompanying plan of moving the Charles river to facilitate the construction of the span and easo traffic conditions...
...President have to make, for his advisers were drawn in different directions.* He well knew that Harvard Professor O. M. W. Sprague, onetime adviser to the Bank of England who had come over last spring to act as his adviser, was considering resigning as a protest against the policies afoot, that financiers in London were accusing him of "playing a gigantic poker game" with the dollar; that in Paris famed Economist Frederic Jenny was prophesying, "Not far distant is the fatal moment when Mr. Roosevelt will be faced with the dilemma of chaotic inflation or a return to dollar stability...
...inter-House action, except in the case of Adams and Dunster which have separate kitchens. The others must have a group arrangement for cooking and service, unless the Comptroller's office loses its ancient inflexibility far enough to smile upon an uneconomic project. If group action were set afoot to put the evening mealtime forward, and a minority blocked the way, it would be right and necessary to overrule the wishes of the minority in favor of the far greater number. Even to the few, no great inconvenience would result from such a change: dinner at six allows enough time...
Brokers. Besides its investigation of Manhattan's Chase National Bank and its investigation of Associated Gas & Electric Co. already afoot, the Senate Committee opened still another investigation. Inquisitor Ferdinand Pecora sent the New York Stock Exchange a questionnaire so exhaustive that it would have required practically a complete audit of the books of all the Exchange's members, a study of some 10,000,000 accounts of customers with brokers. The Exchange refused to answer, saying it had no authority to gather such information. Promptly a dozen prominent brokers were summoned to Washington for questioning and Inquisitor Pecora...
...Dublin distiller, whom Mellon met while she was visiting in Pittsburgh. Donora, Union Steel's new works, was named after the bride and W. H. Donner, Union Steel's president (first father-in-law of Elliott Roosevelt). Considering the other projects which Andrew Mellon had afoot in those years her later complaint that he devoted too much time to business, too little to her, sounds genuine. The marriage lasted only ten years. The divorce was bitterly but privately fought in the courts. Through his friend Boies Penrose, Andrew Mellon had special laws enacted to keep the trial from...