Word: capitalists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile last week Premier Blum staked his Government's prestige on an appeal to the French small-Capitalist class to buy up a huge "baby bond" issue, broken into shares as low as $6.60 apiece. For the occasion the Bank of France, threatened with partial nationalization, lowered the discount rate to 3% and announced that gold reserves were up, the flight of gold from France ended...
...most popular boarding schools, now educates some 550 boys from all over the U. S. Its atmosphere is sporty, informal, distinct from the inbred smallness of such schools as Groton and from the democratic bigness of Exeter and Andover. Last week at its 126th commencement, Lawrenceville heard good news. Capitalist Edward Stephen Harkness, ardent apostle of the House Plan who had given $26,000,000 to install it at Harvard and his alma mater Yale, had decided to make the House Plan's early home a laboratory for his second educational enthusiasm, the Conference Plan. Next year Lawrenceville, armed...
...devouring monster, and all the bitter denunciations emanating from ignorant and prejudiced sources cannot alter the fact that America owes her supremacy in world affairs to capitalism. . . . Woman, of course, through her great ownership of insurance, trust funds, stocks, savings bank accounts, homes, is the greatest capitalist in the world. We mobilize to save this capitalism...
Awarded. To Harold Fowler McCormick, Muriel McCormick Hubbard, Mathilde McCormick Oser, children of Chicago Capitalist Harold Fowler McCormick (International Harvester Co.) and the late Edith Rockefeller McCormick: thirds of the $12.000,000 trust fund set up for their mother by their grandfather John Davison Rockefeller Sr., claimed by Mrs. McCormick's friend Architect Edwin Krenn, to whom she bequeathed five-twelfths of her estate; by the District Court of Appeals; in Poughkeepsie...
Died. Robert B. Delano, 22, son of Manhattan Capitalist Lyman Delano, cousin and onetime Harvard roommate of Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr.; by his own hand (shooting); on a plantation near Barranqueras, Argentine Chaco...