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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...anesthetic "prologue" of the investigation. Dr. Isidor Lubin, the dark, bird-like Commissioner of Labor Statistics, presented a bale of charts to show the growth of U. S. population, industrial production (total and per capita), national income ($432 per capita in the U. S. for 1934-35), employment. Biggest headlines were accorded his estimate that between 1929 and now the country "lost 133 billion dollars of potential income," including 119 billions in workers' wages for 43 million man-years of work...
...Brother Theodore Hoover, who is president of the company. Engineer Henry W. Gould, vice president and general manager, and State Senator Sanborn Young, a leading sponsor of the antilabor proposal which referending California voters turned down last month. Because war in Spain has curtailed output from the biggest sources of quicksilver. New Idria's business has picked up lately. The mine produces one-third of the U. S. supply, the U. S. 15% of the world supply. Californians sometimes refer to Herbert Hoover as the owner, but he said in Manhattan last week that he holds...
Putting over big deals with the aid of champagne suppers and chorus girls was standard business technique of the roaring 1920s. Trying that technique on representatives of the biggest business in the land-the U. S. Government-was last week among the allegations brought against William P. Buckner Jr., 31, a smooth, sporty lawyer who lived in The Bronx but could boast kinship with Thomas A. Buckner of New York Life Insurance Co. (uncle...
...Biggest Japanese businessmen, the Tokyo armament tycoons, met War Minister Seishiro Itagaki last week at the Military Club. There Lieut. General Eiki Tojo warned them that Britain, France and the Soviet Union will continue to give aid to Generalissimo Chiang, and that when Russia thinks Japan has become "exhausted"by the struggle, Tokyo may expect Moscow to roll an offensive down against Korea through Vladivostok. Snapped Lieut. General Tojo at the tycoons: "We are now faced with the necessity of preparing armaments adequate to defend Japan on two fronts at the same time...
...worked his way through Yale, become an engineer, built fabulous Hopewell, Va. for the Du Fonts in Wartime, and moved up to manage various Du Pont enterprises. He had a record as a trouble shooter and a trouble shooter was what U. S. Rubber needed in 1929. This biggest unit in the industry had been internally unsound when the Du Fonts bought into it in 1927 and 1928. Francis Davis, diagnosed its troubles as twofold: the general collapse of crude-rubber prices that began in 1925 and the individual collapse of U. S. Rubber, suffering from obesity...