Word: crediteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Carp," said the President, "I wouldn't trust you longer with it. No danger was there of defalcation, however. The check was never meant to be honored, merely to be framed and hung in Georgia Hall at Warm Springs. Actually the funds it represented already stood to the credit of the Foundation in seven Manhattan banks. The President promised that the money would not be used to repay advances to the Institution. Of the $1,003,000, $100,000 was designated to be used "to stimulate coordination" of infantile paralysis work, $650,000 for "research and study" at Warm...
Saks Fifth Avenue has long been a leader in swank merchandising, and its modernistic window dressing is a model for all alert storekeepers. Chief credit for the Saks' smartness is usually given to Herbert L. Redman, onetime printer's apprentice who emigrated from Great Britain at 20. Last week, haying titillated the classes for some ten years. Storekeeper Redman went downtown to see if he could excite the masses as managing director of Saks 34th Street. Back in Manhattan last week after a six-month trip around the world was Bernard E. ("Ben") Smith, gay, hard-bitten speculator...
...engravings, tid bits of curious information. Sir Percy manifests the complacent chauvinism of the typical hardy, wayfaring Briton, speaks of "British thoroughness," situations "saved by British coolness," believes the British owe their love of adventure to Viking blood from the Normans. Thus although he gives the Dutchman Willem Janszoon credit for discovering Australia in 1605, he spends more time with James Cook who sailed intrepidly jp the east coast of the continent and won it for England. Yet he admires great explorers of any nationality, particularly Alexander the Great and Marco Polo. He las crossed the same fearful stretch...
...make Mr. Arliss's role far more pleasant on the screen than it was in actual life. Under Hollywood hands Nathan Rothschild becomes an heroic, altruistic, entirely admirable person. For example, the movie shows Rothschild risking every cent he possessed in a brave attempt to keep up England's credit by bolstering the falling Exchange, with market quotations dropping at every rumor of victory by Napoleon at Waterloo. Actually, one is informed, Rothschild has advance news of Wellington's triumph and hastened to buy up the market when it was at a dead low, just before the news...
...brightest star in the armament firmament. The annual bills of Vickers-Armstrongs to nations for armaments purchased quite possibly amount to $100,000,000. For England's powerful position as one of the greatest exporters of the materials of war in the world, the bulk of the credit goes to Vickers-Armstrongs. It makes other things than armaments, true enough; such unwarlike products as sewing machines and golf clubs come from its factories. But its chairman, General the Hon. Sir Herbert Lawrence, G. C. B., onetime Chief of Staff of the B. E. F., has put himself on record...