Word: bankerish
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Andre Tardieu, 63, the baldish, bankerish French statesman whose countrymen used to call him "I'Americain" for his bustle and bluntness, lay gravely ill last week at Menton after a nervous breakdown. He was the last living French signer of the Treaty of Versailles, and as Death knocked at his door, the last bitter fruits of that treaty were dropping off history's tree into the ample lap of France...
Once the agent in Colombia of Dillon, Read & Co., suave, bankerish Dr. Alfonso Lopez was last week inaugurated President while a mob of 50,000 jammed Bogota's Plaza Bolivar and roared themselves hoarse...
...Roosevelt saying: "I want you to know that we rely on your organization for its co-operation in furthering the free flow of credit so essential to business enterprises." To the convention came long-nosed Eugene Robert Black, governor of the Federal Reserve, a sublimated banker with a sympathetic, bankerish admonition: "We are in a new era. ... I wouldn't ask any bank to make any loan that in the judgment of its officers it should not make, but I do think that in the new era we must get away from an exclusive investment or collateral lending policy...
...last December he and his group had bought enough Avco stock to remove La Motte T. Cohû from the company's presidency (TIME, Dec. 19). A compromise board of 16 directors, still bankerish, was formed. Richard Farnsworth Hoyt, Hayden, Stone partner and board chairman of Curtiss-Wright, an athletic, motorboat-racing man cut much like Motormaker Cord though more refined, was put in temporarily as president. Mr. Cord & associates continued to buy Avco shares. Bankers Robert Lehman and William Averell Harriman, after their hot and losing proxy fight with Cord last autumn, had no heart to fight longer...
...beloved Albert I is not King of Belgium but King of the Belgians. As paterfamilias of the nation, His Majesty rules with the decisive firmness of a good father. Last week he gave Belgian Deputies a fatherly piece of his mind, refused to let them upset the Cabinet of bankerish Count Charles de Broqueville, able grappler with Belgium's budget problems...