Word: bestor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...destroyed but there would be grave danger of volunteer groups concluding that [their] services were no longer necessary." ¶Vetoed by the President: a $2,100,000,000 unemployment relief bill (see col. 2). ¶President Hoover recommended, in an unexpected message to Congress, that Eugene Meyer and Paul Bestor, Farm Loan Commissioner, be removed as ex-officio directors of the R. F. C. because their added duties have become too burdensome. He also recommended that the board be increased to eight with no more than four directors belonging to one party. ¶Signed by the President...
...first step toward organizing R. F. C. when he began to name its seven directors, four of whom must be Republicans, three Democrats. By law the Secretary or Undersecretary of the Treasury, the Governor of the Federal Re 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...
...Board.* Into this measure the House had tucked a provision for a five-year moratorium on agricultural loans at the discretion of Farm Loan bankers. Before the Senate committee, last week, appeared Paul Bestor, Farm Loan Commissioner, to explain the working of his board, plead for more cash...
...rural borrowers on Nov. 30. About 23½% of these debtors, owing $275,450,000, were delinquent in their payments?11½% over 90 days, 12% under 90 days. Last year delinquencies ran about 10%. That about three out of four farmers had kept up their Farm Loan payments Commissioner Bestor thought was "an excellent showing under the circumstances." To rebut the notion that the Farm Loan Board was a harsh moneylender, he declared that only 3,848 loans ?less than 6% of the delinquencies?had been foreclosed this year. Said he: "There are some individual farmers who owe everybody...
Hans Kaltenborn '09, associate editor of the Brooklyn Eagle and well-known author, will be one of the judges and also chairman of the debate. He will make an opening speech of five minutes and then introduce the speakers. A. E. Bestor, graduate of Chicago and president of the Chataqua Institution, will be the second judge. Dr. Elizabeth McDowell, head of the English Department of the Teachers' College of the City of New York, will be the third. All of the judges will be in New York. The Harvard speakers will gave their arguments over station WNAC in Boston...