Word: bernards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the President's 90 days expired. He had not got his tariff lesson very well. He had been able to find and appoint only five of his six tariff commissioners. They were: Republicans Henry Prather Fletcher (chairman), Edgar Bernard Brossard, John Lee Coulter; Democrats Thomas Walker Page and Alfred Pearce Dennis. Chairman Fletcher was a longtime diplomat with no special tariff training. Commissioner Brossard, a carry-over from the old Commission, was accused of being Senator Reed Smoot's "beet sugar" representative in tariff matters...
...interest in things. You just look around." In 16 years Mr. Meyer had made all the money he wanted and more. When War came in 1917 he was only too glad to quit the financial district and go to Washington at the call of his great & good friend Bernard Mannes Baruch to take an advisory position with the War Industries Board. When Congress created War Finance Corp. to make loans to industries essential to the War, President Wilson made Mr. Meyer a director, later managing director. When War Finance Corp. lapsed in 1920, Mr. Meyer successfully argued for its resurrection...
Thanks for turning up the item (in your issue of Aug. 11) about Fascist soldiers firing on a rescue party of St. Bernard monks, ft did not appear in any of the dailies I read. . . . My greatest (presumably unattainable) ambition as a modern woman with civilized tastes: to snub Mussolini...
Last week, however, that prospect was materially altered when Illinois Republicans held their State convention at Springfield. A Prohibition referendum goes on the Illinois ballot this November, due to the 400,000 petition signatures obtained by Chairman Bernard Snow of the Cook County Republican Committee and his Wet friends. Voters are asked three questions: 1) Shall the 18th Amendment be repealed? 2) Shall the Volstead Act be modified? 3) Shall the State Dry law be repealed? On two previous Prohibition polls (1922, 1926), Illinois voted Wet two-to-one. Observers last week could detect no shift in sentiment this year...
...fortnight the shotguns that the Scotch call "double pipe scatter guns" had been popping on the moors. King George was there to get a little shooting before seeing his new granddaughter (see p. 21). John Pierpont Morgan was at Gannochy Lodge and Clarence Hungerford Mackay at Hunt-hill, Brechin. Bernard Baruch could not stay but Silkman Emil Stehli and Charles Steele of the House of Morgan were shooting. Other U. S. gunners-Broker Andre Pillot, Banker Edward Shearson, Red D Line's Frederic Dallet-were talking about their first week's bags. Ambassador Charles Gates Dawes left...