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...went 250 invitations to 250 Great Names throughout the land to journey to Washington and tell the Senate Finance Committee what was wrong with the U. S. First Great Name to open last week's hearing was Bernard Mannes Baruch. His advice: "Balance the Budget. Tax everybody for everything. Take hungry men off the world's pavements." He proposed the following farm relief plan: Let the Government allot production quotas on corn, cotton, wheat and tobacco and then lease the farm land thus left idle at an average of $3 per acre per year, thereby compensating the producer...
...bolster the railroads. And in September the biggest stakeholders, including 68 insurance, companies and four great universities, asked five leading citizens to head a committee of inquiry. Coolidge was named chairman. Alexander Legge (International Harvester) represented Republican industrialists. Alfred E Smith. Bernard Mannes Baruch and Clark Howell (Atlanta Constitution) were chosen as Democrats who would bear weight with Franklin Delano Roosevelt when it came to getting this National Transportation Committee's findings translated into...
Bernard Marines Baruch who gave Mr. Roosevelt his views on War Debts, government economies, railroad relief. Asked by newshawks if he had been offered a Cabinet job, Mr. Baruch quizzically replied: "I've been mentioned in the papers for a number of appointments. They include Secretary of State, Secretary of the Treasury, Secretary of Commerce, Secretary of National Defense, Ambassador to Great Britain, Ambassador to France, chairman of the R. F. C. and chairman of the American delegation to the World Economic Conference...
...their Presidential campaign. To win, the Democrats spent $1,638,177.58 and wound up with an indicated deficit of $769,055. To lose, the Republicans spent $2,670,652.69. Their indicated deficit was $239,540. Henry Ford's $25.000 was the largest single Republican contribution. Bernard Mannes Baruch gave the Democrats a total...
...where he was interested in theatres and taxicabs to Manhattan, where he serves as chairman of Paramount Publix's finance committee, was elected to the board of Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, together with Lawyer Carl August de Gersdorff of Cravath, de Gersdorff, Swaine 8 Wood. They succeeded Bernard Mannes Baruch and the late Paul Moritz Warburg...