Word: dealer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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WASHINGTON--Former Sen. Fred H. Brown of New Hampshire, burly, red-faced New Dealer and fee of public utilities, was nominated today by President Roosevelt to be Comptroller General, one of the most powerful positions in the government service...
Joseph Buchhalter, who was also cited last week, is a onetime Denver commodity trader and real estate dealer who devised a scheme for profiting from Henry Wallace's "ever-normal granary" program. Ihe Buchhalter plan entailed simultaneously going short and long on wheat contracts (buying and selling at the same price). Then if the price rose 1?, the profit was immediately realized on the long side while the short was kept open until the price permitted it also to be closed out at a profit. Since the ever-normal-granary program was expected to stabilize wheat prices...
...Newark, N. J., Sidney A. Fortel, 36, linen-supply dealer who makes a specialty Mr. Sidney A. Fortel wishes to announce that on the seventeenth or eighteenth of June a Son will be born to Mrs. Sidney A. Fortel
...Wallace lined up beside the President against Mr. Farley, Mr. Hull and the Vice President. The War and Navy Secretaries mostly keep out of it, the new Attorney General sticks to his legal knitting. Harry Hopkins is still a loyal New Dealer but in his new job has discovered a new zeal for Recovery. And loyal, long-suffering Henry Morgenthau is at last showing his conservative colors...
...health insurance [in New York State]?" Exactly how members were divided no one ventured to predict, but certain it was that the opposition was well organized. For the last few months Manhattan physicians have been bombarded with propaganda drawn up by smart Publicist Edward Bernays, financed by anti-New Dealer Frank Gannett, who was quick to capitalize on the American Medical Association's opposition to compulsory health insurance, which the New Deal fundamentally endorses. Fancy leaflets, magazines and reprints, some of them issued under the name of the Medical Society of the State of New York, ask doctors such...