Word: brush
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Retired. George H. Van Fleet, 68, closest business associate of the late Warren Gamaliel Harding, editor of the Marion Star during Harding's terms as Senator and President. The Star is now owned by Ohio's Brush-Moore Newspapers...
Matthew Chauncey Brush, president of American International Corp., famed bear and first witness called by the committee after Mr. Whitney. American Brush Co., headed by G. S. Brush, brother of Matthew. Bernard E. ("Sell 'em Ben") Smith, known in Wall Street as "No. 1 bear." W. E. Button &; Co., where Smith makes his office. Ludwig Bendix, no relation to Vincent. Miss M. A. Boyle, who was identified as an associate of Bernard Mannes Baruch. financier and Democrat, but denied she held the account for him. George F. Breen, famed as a "market maker." Harry Content ("most cold-blooded...
...Before the committee reviewing stand began to pass a parade of almost legendary figures-men whose names committeemen and the Wall-Street-conscious public had linked with million-dollar deals, but whose persons had hitherto been concealed in the abysses of Wall Street. Leading the parade was Matthew Chauncey Brush. In marked contrast to Mr. Whitney's quiet precision (which irritated Chairman Norbeck to the point of shouting: "You're hopeless!") was the bluff readiness-to-tell-all of Witness Brush. Mr. Brush greeted Counsel Gray (an old friend), blithely told how he started in Boston with "pretty...
Four years ago Marshal Wu went into the bleak, howling wilderness of Tibet (TIME, April, 16, 1928). There in a monastery perched on a mountain crag he composed a tome of Buddhist poems, painting each character daintily with his artful brush. This scholarly job done and his Fatherland being still stricken by famine, pestilence and war, sedate Scholar Wu buckled on again the sword of a Marshal, returned from lonely Tibet to overcrowded China and today looms potently upon the scene. Equally to President Chiang Kai-shek of China and to Marshal Wu was addressed last week a most amazing...
...have said that I do not belive that under existing circumstances business is a profession; I do not believe that the leaders of American business have as a class a professional feeling toward their activities. What is a profession? I brush aside at once journalists, trained nurses, dancing masters, equestrians, and chiropodists, who speak of themselves as professional. One hears of professional baseball players and professional football players, but the word 'professional' has no proper significance in any such connection. There are paid football players and unpaid football players. There are paid baseball players and unpaid baseball players; but, whether...