Word: d
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Miss Colbert's début with the Theatre Guild, a happy event for both. She is a small brunette of perfect symmetry and French antecedents. New York first discovered her in A Kiss in a Taxi in 1925. Since then she has played in The Barker (in which she met Actor Norman Foster, whom she married), The Pearl of Great Price, The Mulberry Bush, The Ghost Train, Fast Life, and Tin Pan Alley. She has gifts which the Guild undoubtedly will magnify...
...presented. With a studious, almost pugnacious restraint Dr. Schacht stopped time and again on the brink of saying, "Germany cannot pay." His manner bristled with the confidence that this conclusion would be reached by anyone not a nincompoop. Hour after hour the U. S. Chairman of the Committee, Owen D. Young, sat slightly reclined, with his long lawyer-legs comfortably crossed. He puffed a pale cigar. He let Dr. Schacht talk...
...Plowboy Owen D. Young, now Chairman of General Electric Co. and Radio Corp. of America, proved unable or unwilling to duplicate the blooded, Bourbon rôle of aloofness played, last week, by the "last of the J. P. Morgans." As one who had had a leading part in drafting the original Dawes Plan, Tycoon Young began to show pique when Dr. Schacht neared the climax of his argument as to why Germany must not pay all she owes. A passing reference made by Berlin's Iron Man to the fact that Germany has met all her Dawes payments...
...said that the Allies wanted to borrow a round billion at that time; but Mr. Morgan led the British fiscal representative, Lord Reading, into his sanctum, and thoughtfully observed: "Reading, I wouldn't ask a billion if I were you. I think you'd best limit the issue to half a billion...
...Pierpont" signalized his ascension by a bold decision: namely that he and his partners would withdraw from active direction of the corporations in whose finances the House of Morgan was chiefly interested; would confide their management to such capable "outsiders" as the Owen D. Young of today; and would assume on a grand scale what has become the House of Morgan's paternal role toward such high bouncing babes as General Motors...