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...builder (Rice Hotel) & publisher (Chronicle}. As the finance director of the Democratic National Committee, Mr. Jones lured the 1928 party convention to his city with a blank check. Good friend is he of Governor Ross Sterling, whose private finances he now manages. New York's Bernard Mannes Baruch declined appointment to R. F. C. after its chairmanship went to Federal Reserve Governor Eugene Meyer, its presidency to Charles Gates Dawes. All week long President Hoover kept prodding his R. F. C. forward into action. In its final enactment Congress made only three significant changes: 1) a limit...
...serve Board (Eugene Meyer) and the Farm Loan Commissioner (Paul Bestor) are R. F. C. directors, accounting for three of the four Republican places. About the White House last week it was generally assumed that two of the Democratic directors of R. F. C. would be Bernard Mannes Baruch, New York financier and onetime chairman of the War Industries Board, and Edward Nash Hurley, Chicago banker and onetime chairman of the Shipping Board. For active president of R. F. C. was needed a man with a repu tation for vigor as well as for banking. Mr. Hoover chose his week...
...credit clubs to be kept swinging in every direction. Out of Governor Meyer's economic experience and wisdom came the figure?$2,000,000,000?of what was needed to make R. F. C. a real treat to the intangibles of this Depression. His ideas and those of Mr. Baruch run along parallel lines. These two and President Dawes are expected to be the three strong and active men on R. F. C.'s directorate...
Although New York's lame Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt is today the leading Democratic candidate, he is far from being the unanimous choice of his party. A faction, supposedly led by Messrs. Smith, Raskob & Baruch, with support in Massachusetts, New Jersey and Illinois, objects to Mr. Roosevelt's nomination on three grounds: 1) he is too Dry a Wet; 2) he is too radical on water power; 3) he is too unsteady economically. Long has the anti-Roosevelt group been casting around for a candidate of its own. Last week it looked as if Governor Ritchie, thoroughly...
...speech which most Democrats studied for platform pointers, Mr. Baruch gave Governor Ritchie his first important push toward the White House. Declared this wise old Democratic counselor: "We have in our midst the perpetual* Governor of Maryland to whom the finger of Fate seems to point as being perhaps destined to move to a neighboring District...