Word: bernards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bernard Feins, of Brookline...
Baruch Plan. Most important proposal before the W. P. C. came from Bernard Mannes Baruch, astute white eagle of Wall Street. As chairman of the War Industries Board, which mobilized and controlled business to supply the Army during the War, Mr. Baruch learned from experience all about war profiteering. To eradicate it he proposed a Federal command of still-pond-no-more-moving. "In modern warfare," he testified, "administrative control must replace the law of supply and demand. To measure inflation of price and profit we must have some norm. The obvious norm is the whole price structure...
...front cover) Lucifer, who was thrown out of Heaven for wanting to carry his particular Light to mankind, would have grinned sardonically had he looked up through the floor of an official chamber in Manhattan last week. Dr. Walter Bernard Coffey of San Francisco was again asking the State of New York's Department of Social Welfare permission to open a cancer research laboratory and clinic at Huntington, L. I. (TIME, March 23). His cohorts surrounded him. Opposed were Dr. John Augustus Hartwell, president of the New York Academy of Medicine, spokesman for organized Medicine, and his cohorts...
Died. E. W. Clark, 73, board chairman of Union Oil Co. of California, oldtime railroad executive, president of Union Oil Associates, an organizer and onetime (1927-28) president of the American Petroleum Institute; of heart disease; in Los Angeles, Calif. Died. Bernard Albert Eckhart. 79, president of B. A. Eckhart Milling Co.. director of many a big corporation (Armour, Dodge Bros., Montgomery Ward, Erie Railroad), onetime (1924) assistant treasurer of the Republican National Committee; of heart disease; in Chicago. Onetime State Senator (1887-89), he was active in civic and State affairs, donor of Eckhart Science Hall...
...returning to the Hearst fold in 1917 as editor of Harper's Bazaar. ¶Economist Henry Parker Willis, with the New York Journal of Commerce for 30 years, resigned the editorship which he had held since 1919. Reason: "Clashes of opinion" with the Brothers Joseph, Bernard and Victor Ridder, publishers. Managing Editor Frederick W. Jones also resigned...