Word: baruchism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Desportes, South Carolina State Senator, cousin of Bernard Mannes Baruch, to be Minister to Bolivia...
...Another Baruch Man. Leaving pacification of the coal industry to General Johnson and his codemakers, President Roosevelt's new National Labor Board got off to a good start last week as a strike- settler in other troubled fields. Without waiting for New York's Senator Wagner, the regular chairman, to return from a European vacation, Dr. Leo Wolman of NRA's Labor Advisory Board took temporary command. Baltimore-born 43 years ago, this liberal economist has lately shot up to a position of major importance at NRA headquarters. He got his education at Johns Hopkins...
Bernard Mannes Baruch sailed for France to "boil some of the wickedness out of me" at Vichy. Said he: "I'm not going to London because if I did some one would twist it around and call me a delegate, a prophet or something." Asked what he thought of the phrase "Assistant President" applied to himself, he replied: "____ ____.* Now let's talk of something else." A reporter asked him about his reputation as an eater of okra. "Ah, okra!" said Statesman Baruch. "Okra is never good unless it breaks like a cracker...
...been any the week before, there was no doubt last week that the Administration was not to allow any foreign consideration to interfere with domestic recovery. Economic nationalism was now Washington's watchword. But the President put in many an hour discussing the world situation with Bernard Mannes Baruch, Norman Hezekiah Davis, Federal Reserve Governor Eugene Black, and many another who marched in & out of the White House. By cable and telephone the President kept in constant touch with Secretary of State Hull at the World Economic Conference in London...
...more help General Johnson turned last week to Edward Reilly Stettinius. In this choice the influence of Bernard Baruch, master mind of the Recovery Administration, was again apparent, for Edward Stettinius Sr., Morgan partner who died in 1925, was one of Mr. Baruch's associates in handling Wartime industry. Son Stettinius. only 32, graduate of the University of Virginia, a vice president of General Motors, was given the job of stimulating the tycoon members of the Industrial Advisory Board appointed by Secretary of Commerce Roper (TIME, June 26) to throw their influence effectively behind General Johnson's efforts...