Word: alberts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Albert Sidney Johnstone of Richmond, Va. had always wanted to be a minister, but illness forced him to give up the idea. Instead, he became a businessman, eventually became personnel officer of Richmond's Federal Reserve Bank. Richmond came to know him as a leader in charities and civic affairs-but this work never completely satisfied...
...three bosses of the Red-wired electrical workers-President Albert Fitzgerald, Julius Emspak, James Matles-made the same fruitless overtures. Big Joe Curran, an ex-party-liner himself, boss of the maritime union and one of Murray's chief aides, chortled: "It used to be when Jim Matles walked in the room, we all stood up. Now we don't even let him in the room." This was not quite correct: Murray did let him in, and listened before waving...
...Innocent? When his denial went unnoticed, Rader took another step: he started perjury proceedings against Witness Hewitt. But while a deputy prosecutor cooled his heels outside the offices of the Canwell committee (named for ex-State Representative Albert F. Canwell), Hewitt was packed aboard a plane for New York. There, a Bronx court refused to extradite him. Though Rader continued to teach at the University of Washington, his reputation was blasted...
...Morgan offices at 23 Wall Street, Morgan Partner Thomas W. Lament called a council of war with five of Manhattan's biggest bankers: Charles E. Mitchell, William C. Potter, Albert H. Wiggin, Seward Prosser and George F. Baker Jr. (J. P. Morgan himself was in Europe.) About 1:30 p.m. they sent the "Morgan broker," Richard Whitney,* to the Stock Exchange's No. 2 Post, where U.S. Steel is traded. Cried Whitney: "I bid $205 for 25,000 shares of Steel." He moved on to other posts, cried other bids for huge blocks at the price...
...Levy stopped he was held by the assailant while another man standing nearby grabbed one of his arms. A third robber appeared and helped his two comrades in the robbery. Albert Rosenberg '52, who was returning from Radcliffe, saw the scuffle, and after hearing Levy's shouts, ran to his aid, causing the attackers to disperse...