Word: baruchism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rufus Lenoir Patterson 2nd (American Machine & Foundry) 5,000 Samuel Bayard Colgate (Colgate-Palmolive-Peet) 5,000 Robert Sterling Clark (broker) . . 4,900 Archibald M. L. du Pont 2,500 Hal Roach (cinema comedies) . . 2,500 William Lockhart Clayton (cotton broker) 1,000 Renée W. Baruch (daughter) . . . 100 Mrs. Clarence Mackay...
Engaged, Renee Wilcox Baruch, younger daughter of Bernard Mannes Baruch, and Henry Robert Samstag, Manhattan broker...
Uncertain grins appeared below the beaks of the newshawks. There was dead silence. Used to Presidential leg-pulling, they waited for the joker. Then gradually it. dawned on them that the only joke was the President's deliberate error with the middle initials of Messrs. Baruch and Johnson, that he was stealing the show from the Senate munitions investigation. The correspondents began to babble questions and Franklin Roosevelt beamed at the success of his pleasantry...
...hour talk with President Roosevelt. What that talk concerned the President revealed two days later when he announced: "The time has come to take the profit out of war." To take the profit out of war the President appointed a special committee headed by General Johnson and Bernard Mannes Baruch...
These facts were just developing in last week's testimony when?Pop! President Roosevelt called in newshawks, announced that he had appointed Messrs. Baruch, Johnson, Secretaries Hull, Morgenthau, Dern, Wallace, Swanson, Perkins, General Douglas MacArthur, Chief of Staff, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Henry L. Roosevelt, Rail Coordinator Joseph B. Eastman and Foreign Trade Adviser George N. Peek to take the profit out of war. The announcement knocked the Senatorial inquisitors completely out of the spotlight...