Word: compeer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...camera's focus alternately, his financial career and his career with Josie Mansfield. Getting off to a fast start with some able stooging by Grant and Oakie, Arnold appears on his way to another of his masterful, belly-laughing characterizations, this time of the late Jay Gould's spectacular compeer. But enter love. Miss Farmer's rather self-conscious poignancy upsets the emotional possibilities inherent in Fisk's Wall Street development. Then set for a satisfyingly tragic romance amid the triangle of Arnold in love with Farmer in love with Grant in love with Farmer but faithful to Arnold...
...diplomatic tasks in Tokyo during the strained days of the Manchurian crisis. His wealth, tact and toughness won him such respect among the Japanese that at a farewell banquet before his return to the U. S. the president of the House of Peers declared him "a worthy compeer of George Washington...
...Compeer Forbes, who is also a grandson of Ralph Waldo Emerson and a cousin of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, did not relinquish his interest in Japanese affairs with his Ambassadorship. In 1935 he went back to Japan as head of the American Economic Mission to the Far East, whose report on Japanese industry acted powerfully to dispel the popular notion that Japan's booming foreign trade was made possible by hideously sweated labor. One of the members of the Forbes mission, President Roosevelt's Georgia neighbor, Cason Callaway, followed it by helping to promote the agreement concluded last winter...
...Worthy Compeer," Most cheerful events in Japan's capital last week was the farewell round of banquets to William Cameron Forbes, soon to be succeeded as U. S. Ambassador in Tokyo by Joseph Clark Grew, a cousin by marriage of John P. Morgan...
...Ambassador Forbes is a worthy compeer of George Washington," declared Prince Tokugawa, President of the House of Peers...