Word: bernards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...meetings of groups in Kirkland House are scheduled for this evening at 7.30 o'clock. Bernard DeVoto, instructor in English, will speak to the English group and J. H. Williams, professor of Money and banking, will discuss "The Consequences of Going of the Gold Standard" before the Economists...
Rented Acres. Another crop-cutting device, endorsed by Elder Statesman Bernard Mannes Baruch, called for the Secretary of Agriculture to lease lands which farmers agreed to leave fallow. Previous estimates were to the effect that farmers would collect about $3 for every acre they left uncultivated, though the bill allowed the Secretary to set his own rental. Conceivably a shrewd farmer could rent enough of his land to the U. S. to remain idle all year...
...head office of Harriman National (at the southeast corner of Fifth Avenue and 44th St.) looks across to the northeast corner at a large empty office which once housed the notorious Bank of United States.* Ill omen for Joe Harriman was the news last week that the conviction of Bernard K. Marcus, president, and Saul Singer, vice president, of the Bank of U. S. was affirmed by the New York Court of Appeals. Banksters Marcus & Singer were notified to get ready to serve their three-to-six-year terms in Sing Sing (the conviction of Herbert Singer, young...
Helen Keller in a syndicated story told of meeting Writer George Bernard Shaw in Lady Astor's London drawing-room. Miss Keller had been deeply affected by Pygmalion and Saint Joan, waited long in a flutter of hero worship for the great Shaw to wake from a nap. When he came, she groped out her hand, felt a hand "bristling with egotism" take it slackly. She: "I've wanted to know you for ever so long." He: "Why do all you Americans say the same thing?" Her companion tapped his words into her hand. Lady Astor...
...years of detailed and painstaking investigation into the affairs of the Bank of the United States in New York, the court has found the president, Bernard Marcus, and the vice-president, Saul Singer, guilty of "willful misapplication of corporate funds." They have been sentenced to a term in Sing-Sing of from three to six years. The evidence given in this inquiry and others of the recent past indicates that the crime is common, and can be met not by more stringent laws, but by more vigorous prosecution of the present statutes...