Word: details
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the Senate Finance Committee dug deeper into the kind of foreign financing U. S. bankers do not discuss in detail on the front pages of the Press. Chief digger was white-crested Senator Hiram Johnson of California, determined to make political capital for his isolationist theory of foreign relations by exposing the loss of financial capital by U. S. investors in foreign securities. That his tactics annoyed the White House, the Department of State and the bankers, only spurred him on to greater inquisitiveness. Under scrutiny by the committee last week were loans to South American governments...
...have a neat three quarter length affair, much on the order of the Hoover portrait which de Laszlo finished last week. For $3,000 he may consent to do a sketch, a little like the one of Mrs. Hoover, warm, sympathetic and technically graceful, but without much detail. Naturally, these qualifications are likely to belong to notables. Last week's show, like all de Laszlo exhibitions, was an imposing concordance of Who's Who and the Social Register, a tribute to the eminence of de Laszlo sitters and his ability to do them justice...
...slim, medium height with brown hair and eyes. Except when he puts on his steel spectacles and looks like a young college professor he is undistinguished. He is a voluble talker with small regard for grammar and no qualm about profanity. He pays small attention to the detail of his business but thinks and talks plans and policies incessantly. He and his whole company believe in using the telephone long & often. The company's bill sometimes runs between $15,000 and $20.000 a month. Mr. Cord's right-hand man is tall, blond Lucius B. Manning, 37, Yale graduate...
...fold. Lux Veritatis treats in great detail the judgments of the Council of Ephesus, summarized thus: "Thatin Jesus Christ the true natures, divine and human, are united in one only divine person (hypostatic union); that the Virgin Mary is the true Mother of God; and that to the Roman Pontiff belongs by divine right a supreme and infallible authority over the whole church in matters of faith and morals." The Pope is "confident that [Protestants and Eastern Christians] becoming convinced by history, life's teacher, will be able to feel at least a longing for one fold under...
...unscrupulous stock promoter who as an "insider" made a fortune at the expense of the investing public. He is followed to West Australia's gold fields as the agent of the London engineering firm of Bewick, Moreing & Cox of which he later became a partner. In detail his "taking" of the Kaiping coal mines in China is described, together with the London law suit in which an equity court found against his firm and in favor of Mandarin Chang. Tin enterprises in Nigeria, oil ventures in Siberia and Peru, gold digging in the Klondike, lead and silver mining...