Word: barucher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bernard I. Baruch," he began...
...largely because they furnished a handy explanation of the Russian Revolution. They reached the U. S., were reprinted in Henry Ford's anti-Semitic Dearborn Independent. They are currently in circulation* along with such kindred pamphlets as The Plan in Action, by "Earnest Sincere," who declares that Bernard Mannes Baruch is slated to be "Sponsor" for the Western Hemisphere under "Akad Ha'Am, the Unknown and Uncrowned King of Jewry throughout the earth...
...year later, irrepressible "Bernie" Baruch ended his 64th year by pulling out of Wall Street, moving his office from No. 120 Broadway four miles uptown to the corner of 57th and Madison (TIME, July 2). He was resolved that the financial district should see less of him, the public hear more. To that end he addressed himself to writing three books, largely about Bernard Baruch. Biographer Marquis James (Andrew Jackson, the Border Captain) was hired to help in their preparation...
...vastly pleased the white-crested patriarch, therefore, to return home and find his name bruited about as the new national industrial coordinator, to read such newspaper headlines as BARUCH RISES AGAIN AS FORCE IN U. S. AFFAIRS. "I like to think of myself," the smiling Jew once told a friend, "as the Disraeli of America." The Disraeli image broadened when President Roosevelt invited him up to Hyde Park the third day he was home. Last week, when his onetime lieutenant resigned from NRA, Wall Street was offering even money that Hugh Johnson's boss would be Hugh Johnson...
...days later, when NRA's new set-up was announced, the answer was indeed found to be "No". But "Bernie" Baruch was happy that he was once more back in the political limelight, was well aware that even when Gladstone was Prime Minister, Disraeli was a potent figure in his country's politics...