Word: connors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Loan speeches, bought up the shipless Export company in 1920 for $65,000. His friends now include Egyptian royalty, from whose stables he has acquired fine Arabian horseflesh (see cut). An older, even more valuable friend, with whom for years he has played poker, is Thomas Ventry O'Connor, longtime chairman of the now defunct U. S. Shipping Board, with whom he did all of his government business. Last week Shipman Herbermann appeared before the Senate committee with a physician who kept taking his pulse at intervals...
...White House study as visitors began to arrive in answer to a special call. In trooped dandified little Secretary of the Treasury Woodin, suntanned Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, portly Attorney General Cummings. At their heels came Federal Reserve Governor Black, R. F. C. Chairman Jones, Currency Comptroller O'Connor, Budget Director Douglas, Deposit Insurance Corp. Chairman Cummings. After handshakes all around they settled down in easy chairs, listened to the President talk. His subject: the necessity for more steam in the boiler of National Recovery...
...under the new deposit insurance system Jan. 1. Chairman Jones was deluged with advice as to how his R. F. C. could loosen its resources, break the credit deadlock. How to speed the reopening of banks frozen shut since winter was another topic of lively debate. Comptroller O'Connor reported his efforts to date. The President thought much more could be done with aggressive R. F. C. aid, in "hard" money. Secretary Wallace was wide open to suggestions to boost farm prices to new levels created by NRA. At the mention of capital fleeing the U. S. before...
James Francis Thaddeus O'Connor, Comptroller of the Currency, went before the bankers and told them, the names of the two directors who with himself will administer the deposit guarantee law: Walter Joseph Cummings, executive assistant in the Treasury, close friend of William Hartman Woodin, and Elbert G. Bennett, banker of Ogden, Utah. These announcements the polite bankers applauded. And they listened politely when Comptroller O'Connor told them: ''Every depositor has a right to his money. This law makes the theory a fact. It will banish fear in every banker's mind of runs...
Attentive Welshmen gathering last week in Wrexham for the national festival or Eisteddfod of Wales politely honored a bleak, grey-mustached, sensitive man who as a youth polished cuspidors and the brass rail of Luke O'Connor's bygone saloon in Manhattan's Greenwich Village. Later in Yonkers, N. Y. sensitive John Masefield learned to abhor the Machine Age by working in a rug mill. Last week as the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom he told Welshmen that "the world subconsciously longs for poetry but it now invents substitutes, such as speed, to obtain the excitement...