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...holding company that remained a holding company was ATCO. At that time it was called Cord Corp. and its head, hardboiled, dynamic Errett Lobban Cord, was fast becoming the least regimented syndicateer in the flying game. But in 1937 Motorman Cord sold out his Cord Corp. holdings. About a quarter of them went to his broad-shouldered, boom-voiced No. 1 man, Lucius Bass Manning, already a large stockholder. The rest went to a syndicate headed by British Bankers J. Henry Schroder & Co., and to young, up-&-coming Public Utilitarian Victor Emanuel's investment house, Emanuel & Co. (in which...
...stayed year after year, Lincolnian in frame and profile, quiet, serious, steady, until the Spanish-American War. From around Celina he recruited a company of mountaineers, joined the Fourth Tennessee Regiment-dashing in his long Custer mustaches, big rolled hat. To Cuba they went too late to fight. Captain Cord Hull now turned his attention to poker to kill time...
Billy Hull once said: "Cord was always just like a grown man, from the time he could walk." Nade had the best memory but Cord was the best speaker. Once he wrote a powerful essay titled "Clothes Don't Make the Man," delivered it wearing a blue homespun work shirt. But his one real passion seemed to be politics, which he followed with the same sort of scorecard interest with which schoolboys now follow baseball...
After Joe McMillin's Montvale Academy, Cord entered Cumberland University at Lebanon, Tennessee's famed short-order law school. After a ten-month course he was pronounced a lawyer, was admitted...
...Cord's hero was Joe McMillin's brother, Congressman Benton McMillin, a rock of old-line Democracy, a low-tariff man, an advocate of a high income tax law on those millionaires back East. In Bent's buggy at campaign time, young Hull absorbed demo cratic doctrine. It was Bent McMillin who later drafted the first U. S. income tax law, killed by the Supreme Court; and it was Cordell Hull, many years later, who drafted the income tax law (1913) that stands today...