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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...First Dry to the witness stand was Edwin Cornell Jameson, president of Globe & Rutgers Fire Insurance Co., director of many another potent company, business partner of New Jersey's Joseph Sherman Frelinghuysen (this year a Wet candidate for the Senate). Mr. Jameson was the largest individual contributor ($172,800) to the Hoover campaign (TIME, April 28). Squarejawed, tightlipped, with a big dimple in his chin, Mr. Jameson has grey-fringed black hair, a close-cropped black mustache, wears sparkling pince-nez before placid grey eyes. Spruce and good looking, he refused to be photographed because, he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Dollars & Divinity | 5/19/1930 | See Source »

Proud was Editor Ray Long when Contributor Calvin Coolidge said to him of Cosmopolitan Magazine: "Yes, when you pay 35? for a magazine, that magazine takes on in your eyes the nature of a book, and you treat it accordingly" (TIME, March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Price Cut | 5/19/1930 | See Source »

...specific charge Mr. Tinkham did make against Bishop Cannon. He developed the fact that according to a Senate investigation report in 1929 the largest single contributor to Herbert Hoover's campaign was Edwin Cornell Jameson of Manhattan who gave $172,000 to beat Democratic Nominee Smith. Mr. Jameson is president of Globe & Rutgers Fire Insurance Co., a director of many another insurance company and bank, and of American Smelting & Refining Co. According to his report to the Senate, he contributed $65,300 to Bishop Cannon to wage his successful war against Nominee Smith in Virginia. When the Bishop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Words of the Week | 4/28/1930 | See Source »

...Manhattan Biggest Contributor Jameson, when questioned about these intricacies of political financing, revealed his amateur standing as a "fat cat" by insisting: "I have no idea what it's all about. I have no idea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Words of the Week | 4/28/1930 | See Source »

...clear that this book must of necessity have a fairly limited audience, but to persons who can or who merely believe they can write 'articles, there is sure to be information of value. The authors do not claim to make of every reader a successful contributor to the Sat Eve Post on the Atlantic, but they do offer a good orderly compendium of facts that will save many "trials and enters" for the potential contribution to contemporary non flection...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOOKENDS | 4/26/1930 | See Source »

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