Word: atwoods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Aides. But smiles and patience do not open 18,000 banks. For that job Secretary Woodin had able and experienced assistants. President Roosevelt had asked Undersecretary of the Treasury Arthur Atwood Ballantine and Assistant Secretary James Henderson Douglas Jr., Hoover appointees, to stick at their posts through the crisis, perhaps longer. Mr. Ballantine, a chunky Harvard lawyer from Oyster Bay, L. I., backstopped Secretary Woodin, pointing up matters of policy for him to yes-or-no. Like a chief of staff Chicago's Jim Douglas, an erect and handsome young Princetonian (class of 1920), was on the Treasury...
...directors' room on the seventh floor of the Guardian Building. Governor William A. Comstock presided over the conference hurriedly assembled. The Guardian clearly could not face another day. From Washington came Secretary of Commerce Roy Dikeman Chapin. a Detroit man. and Under Secretary of the Treasury Arthur Atwood Ballantine. Most of Detroit's industrial and banking tycoons jammed the smoke-blue room. At 2 a. m. Governor Comstock announced simply that he would declare a holiday. Over the violent protest of the bankers, he told the "unvarnished story" of Union Guardian's plight...
...clock crew: T. B. Knowies '34, stroke; Henry Saltonstall '35, 7; P. V. Bray '35, 6; J. T. Mendenhall '35, 5; R. B. Cutler '35, 4; J. C. storey '35, 3; Maurice Adelsheim, Jr. '33, 2; R. G. Atwood...
...time for the first big stockmarket break, the anniversary of which came last week (16,410,000 shares, ticker two and one-half hours late, Telephone at 204 -28, Allied Chemical at 204 -14. "Leaders Confer, Find Conditions Sound"). Last week nothing broke up the convention. They heard Arthur Atwood Ballantine, Undersecretary of the Treasury, make such observations as: "What the position of the Government will be at the end of the fiscal year 1933 depends upon total expenditures and revenues for the full twelve-months period. . . . Financial problems ahead unquestionably require firm and intelligent handling." Elected president for next...
Governor Roosevelt broke another political precedent last week when he appealed by radio to his "forgotten man" for small contributions to the Democratic campaign fund. Next day to Manhattan headquarters a Dr. M. Collier, dentist, brought the first $1. Behind him came Bishop Julius Walter Atwood of Arizona, member of Manhattan's exclusive Century Club, with a $10 check. First day's collections: $197.50. Campaign budget: $1,500,000. Two days later Nominee Roosevelt went to Sea Girt, N. J.. where Boss Frank Hague had massed 100,000 Democrats to hear him speak on Prohibition. Flaying...