Word: commissioners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With 9,000 Americans to shepherd in England, with tangible U. S. business interests under his eye, with 150 Americans cabling from the U. S. daily for information on Athenia survivors, with British bigwigs to see, Franklin Roosevelt to keep informed, Joe Kennedy had a bigger job. Twice he had...
The Kennedy Way. The Maritime Commission operates today on a pattern Chairman Joe Kennedy laid out for it in 75 16-hour days-even as the Securities and Exchange Commission yet works along the lines he laid down in 431 work-crammed days.
> The U. S. chartered all available vessels to evacuate some 17,000 U. S. citizens still stranded in Europe, but labor trouble delayed the sailings. For every U. S. seaman shipping to war zones the National Maritime Union demanded a $250 bonus, $25,000 insurance. Ships finally got under way...
The other threat was peace. If peace comes unexpectedly, before enormous export orders bail out those who last week speculated on that huge business, U. S. industry might face a 1921-type collapse. The Securities and Exchange Commission kept a weather eye out for a peace scare that might shake...
>Competitive bidding for security issues suffered a setback after the Pennsylvania Public Service Commission had insisted upon it for a $5,200,000 bond issue (and for 46,292 shares of preferred stock) of Pennsylvania Telephone Corp. When the hour of sale arrived, there were no bidders.