Word: bryan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Secretary Hull, but his important interview was reserved for later. That evening the President and Mrs. Roosevelt had at their dinner table the Prime Minister; Secretary Hull; Oscar Douglas Skelton, Canadian Undersecretary of State for External Affairs; Hume Wrong, Canadian Charge d'Affaires;- Mrs. Wrong and Ministress Ruth Bryan Owen. Afterwards the gentlemen retired to the President's study. What passed there will not be revealed until the reciprocal trade agreement between Canada and the U. S. is published, but the President and the Prime Minister found much in common. Had not Mr. King taken a Ph.D...
...Garner observed: "We'll play a little draw poker, I suppose, and talk about each other. They say we may meet the Emperor of Japan. I've brought along a couple of pairs of new cotton socks so I won't be embarrassed like William Jennings Bryan. He had a hole in his sock when he took his shoes off to meet the Emperor...
Actual hostilities began in June 1932, when George Wilson, then Virginia-Carolina president, tried to arrange a merger with a fertilizing subsidiary of Armour & Co. Mr. Kemp was then not even a director, but as a stockholder and as a member of Bryan & Kemp, Richmond brokers, he took an interest in Virginia-Carolina's welfare. Objecting to the fact that the merger gave Armour a 61% interest in the new company, he rallied stock-holders against the consolidation, blocked it. Soon Mr. Wilson resigned, was succeeded by Vice President George Holderness. But the anti-Kemp, promerger faction remained unsatisfied...
...Hearted Bryan Sirs: William Jennings Bryan's talks for Coral Gables were not entirely out of a good heart (gratis), as you state in TIME, Sept. 30, if we are to believe M. R. Werner in his Bryan: "He also devoted part of his time to delivering lectures for a Florida real estate company at $250 a lecture. Bryan sat in an arm chair on a float and talked to the crowd that lined the shore of a lagoon. A narrow strip of water separated Bryan from the crowd on shore. A large cotton umbrella sheltered his bald head...
...York City Right is Reader Swain. Ballyhooer Bryan was paid at the rate of $75,000 a year for two years by George E. Merrick, promoter of Coral Gables. He received $100.000 cash, $50.000 in real estate. Mourned Promoter Merrick: "I wish I had him now."-ED. Same Meat Sirs: Need Hitlerite "Bait" Rosenberg waste all those words to explain a concept of holiness [TIME, Sept. 30]? Twenty-one years ago, it was compacted into the simple phrase, "Gott mit Vns." The world understood it then and still does understand it. And no matter how thin Spiritualist Rosenberg may slice...