Word: counseling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gould for refusing to play his slippery games. In late years the firm has practically withdrawn from the underwriting field to specialize as a dealer in railroad and municipal issues. But what lifted Roosevelt & Son above the run-of-the-mill Wall Street houses was its unbiased investment counsel. Its clientele consisted largely of institutions, wealthy individuals and estates which turned over their portfolios to Roosevelt management. And Roosevelt management was good...
...surprised if I were to tell you that there is a certain Wall Street international banker who was for years the vice president in charge of the foreign department of one of the largest Wall Street banks, then president of a smaller bank, then a Wall Street in vestment counsel, and who now represents himself to be the intimate adviser of Senator Thomas? This is not hearsay. This man has stated not once but several times that not only is he Senator Thomas's ad viser, but that he helps the good Senator to write many of his letters...
...adviser to little King Prajadhipok of Siam, whose country has an external debt of ?8,500,000. An able New Hampshire lawyer, Mr. Stevens entered Congress in 1913, ran for the Senate at the end of his first term, was defeated. Woodrow Wilson kept him in Washington as special counsel to the Federal Trade Commission, later as Wartime vice chairman of the Shipping Board. Last winter President Roosevelt persuaded him to get a leave of absence from the King of Siam to serve for six months as a Federal Trade Commissioner. When the Council was launched, Mr. Stevens had already...
...bonds of the Societe Intercommunale Beige d'Electricite are entitled to demand and receive interest and capital payments in gold at the par value of the pound.* "The original intention of the contract was to prevent the loss from falling upon the bondholder should sterling become depreciated," argued counsel for the bondholders, and this view the Lords upheld. Because the U. S. Supreme Court gives great weight to pertinent decisions at the fountainhead of Anglo-Saxon law, holders of U. S. gold clause bonds hoped that last week's decision will help them when their suits come...
...Peek for their ideas that he had practically picked a separate AAA staff to avoid having to deal with the Braintrusters. Unable on his part to oust Mr. Frank, one of his most outright opponents, he had retained at his own expense Frederic Lee as his personal counsel. First result of the two factions working at cross purposes was virtual sabotage of the AAA program. The Braintrusters held up codes for packers and food distributors because they wanted stiff provisions to socialize those industries. Mr. Peek held back on crop restriction plans because he wanted more efforts made to export...