Word: coms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Inasmuch as the State Department has held no Foreign Service examinations since 1932, the year Mr. Roudybush opened his school and the year after Turner & Co. opened theirs, there is small basis for com paring results...
Predecessor. When Mr. Morgenthau sits at his desk, he can raise his eyes to the right and look up into the florid features of Salmon P. Chase. He may take some com fort from doing so, for he and Abraham Lincoln's Secretary of the Treasury have much in common. Chase, too, was not a financier by training. His chief interest in life was abolition and he had the difficult job of financing the war to end slavery. The Dictionary of American Biography says of Mr. Chase...
...banking moratorium which soon followed. Banker Hecht's old Hibernia Bank & Trust was not allowed to open wide. Curiously enough, that was about the best thing that ever happened to Mr. Hecht and his big bank. Reorganized with some fresh capital, the bank took out a national charter. Thus com pletely free of the State banking department, which was never averse to twisting the screws on Senator Long's order, Hibernia National has grown and prospered. And Banker Hecht has not even seen Huey Long for months...
...jovial Irishman named Victor Herbert (Mlle Modiste) and an ex-U. S. Marine Corps bandmaster named John Philip Sousa ("The Stars and Stripes Forever") founded A. S. C. A. & P. to collect royalties for songwriters and com posers whose works were then being bandied from one cafe to another with never a penny's profit to the men who made them. At first it was uphill sledding bu. Victor Herbert had a smart attorney named Nathan Burkan and a willing helper named Eugene Howard Buck, who collaborated on 20 Ziegfeld Follies. Under George Maxwell, its first president, and now under...
...Here resulted an effective community of directives and methods in what concerns the independence and integrity of the Austrian State, an independence and integrity to which appertains also com plete internal autonomy and which represent, moreover, the concrete European interest and a favorable element for the maintenance of the Danubian sector...