Word: bernards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chairman O'Connor had been tipped off first. In the course of some routine questioning before his committee, A. G. & E. Representative Bernard B. Robinson had revealed that only the previous night he had talked at the Shoreham with the man whom most of the U. S. Government had been hunting for three weeks...
...Bernard B. Robinson, lobbyist of A. G. & E.. testified that he had talked with Mr. Hopson by telephone four days earlier but did not known his whereabouts. "Mr. Hopson is not a well man. I've been told by physicians that if he ever developed a sore throat he would choke to death." "If you knew where he was would you tell the committee?" "Well. I don't believe I would." "Then we will ask you. Do you know where...
...Noyes's most significant telegrams were from Bernard Mannes Baruch (in Paris): "This is a particularly happy day for me as the dream of my father to have a place where the suffering could be healed and made better able to face their daily problem comes true." And "Bernie" Baruch's brother, Dr. Herman Benjamin Baruch, wired: "This indeed is a permanent monument to our dear father . . . Dr. Simon Baruch...
Though the money for modernizing the Comstock mines was reported to be in the hands of a "Raskob-Baruch-Pittman" group, both Nevada's Senator Pittman and Bernard Baruch denied any financial interest. However, the Silver Senator admitted that he was advising Mr. Raskob as counsel...
...Bernard Willis ("Barney") Snow, when not estimating crops for Bartlett Frazier Co. of Chicago, is playing politics or golf. Dean of forecasters, he has also served as bailiff of the Municipal Court and member of the Chicago City Council. Portly, bald-pated and 70, he sports a white military mustache, wears his hat tilted over one eye. He began as a Tennessee farmer, joined the Department of Agriculture as a day laborer in 1884. Nine years later he became the first commercial crop forecaster. He collects his information from 5,000 correspondents. Barney Snow has one eccentricity. He never selects...