Word: aldriches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...progress but President Roosevelt was much too busy to heed Governor Eccles' plaintive pleas for moral support. All Mr. Eccles knew was that something drastic was happening to his bill. Indeed, the subcommittee was so secretive that banker-baiting newspapers suspected skulduggery. When it was discovered that Chairman Winthrop Aldrich of Chase National Bank had been in touch with Messrs. Glass and Townsend on the telephone, the Senators were loudly accused of selling out to Wall Street...
...seeds, cinemas, drygoods, hardware and propagandists, dispatch them to the back districts for the edification of incredulous Chinese. In the U. S. railroad peddling has been largely confined to private cars in which crack executives tour the land, scatter cheer to underlings and big customers. Last autumn Chairman Winthrop Aldrich of Chase National Bank led a long goodwill mission around the borders of the U. S. in a private car with his nephew Nelson Rockefeller as Exhibit A (TIME, Dec. 24). But not until last fortnight when Chicago's Marshall Field & Co. christened an eleven-car Merchandise Express...
Godfather of the U. S. lace industry was the late Senator Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich of Rhode Island, where 41% of the industry is now located. He it was who wrote into the Tariff Act of 1909 a 70% ad valorem duty on. imported lace. Because the U. S. could not easily build the amazingly complex lace-making machines that British manufacturers had been making for a century, the famed Rhode Island protectionist thoughtfully included a provision that machines might be imported duty free for a period of 18 months. Hundreds of machines were hastily installed. Because U. S. labor could...
...feet he had consumed a pound and a half of grapes, half a pound of American cheese, 15 glasses of milk. He had set a record for one-man filibusters second only to the 18-hour and 23-minute performance of the late great Robert Marion LaFollette on the Aldrich-Vreeland currency bill in 1908* And, at the hands of a determined little group of Democratic neophytes, he had lost his last shred of standing with his fellow Senators...
...Clark; H. vanB. Cleveland; E. R. Coburn; R. C. Cochrane, Jr.; L. A. Collins; J. L. Coombs; S. P. Cotton; E. H. Cox; Sylvester Cunningham; S. M. Dall; J. L. Dampeer; J. K. Davis; H. G. Deane; J. K. P. de Varon; Hume Dow; A. C. Doyle; Aldrich Durant, Jr.; J. R. Egan; W. A. Evans; Thomas Fuller; H. L. Furse; R. I. Gale; T. F. Geraghty; John Gilroy; P. M. Glendinning; W. T. Glendinning; Prentiss Godfrey; G. H. Gregg; D. R. Griffin; H. B. Grisweld; A. H. Hall; Leonard Hammer; J. G. Harder; John Hay; Bernard Helfat...