Word: directness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Continuing to direct National City's trust division (City Bank Farmers Trust Co.) after the merger, he never became embroiled in any of Mr. Mitchell's stock selling schemes. He is known as a banker of the old type-which is precisely what National City needed to regain public approval. Manhattan knows little of him socially. He spends all his time at his big estate in swank Greenwich, Conn., rides horseback daily before breakfast. He is a trustee of Smith College, the Berkshire School, Sarah Lawrence College and an Overseer of Harvard College...
...funds for building expenditures dropped from $400,000,000 to $154,000,000 annually. To some people, notably Henry Louis Mencken who belabored the pedagogs in his American Mercury last month (TIME, Feb. 20), this might have seemed a blessing. Of such critics the superintendents took no direct notice last week. But they were girded to fight, most of them agreeing, however reluctantly, with a Wisconsin superintendent's statement: "The teaching profession as a whole has been too smug in it? reliance upon universal desire for good schools." Said Dr. Jesse Homer Newlon of Manhattan's Lincoln School...
...getting champion of this basic principle of world recovery, President-elect Fraser faces a battling, buffeting year, will need all the stamina packed into his tough, square-shouldered frame. Typical of direct, common-sense Fraser methods was the Bank's settlement last week of the issue of "double taxation" with the City of Basle. Radical aldermen have demanded that the city pry into the private income of each employe of the Bank (already taxed in his home country) and tax it again in Basle. The Bank retorted by offering the city a lump sum payment of 50,000 Swiss...
With the publication of this morning's statistical array the CRIMSON has printed the last of the answers to the tutorial System Questionnaire which was mailed to the tutors late in December. Despite many complaints relative to the nature of the direct questions which were sused, and despite the palpably incomplete character of the returns, the CRIMSON feels that the investigation has proved satisfactory. The statistical queries were not intended to duplicate the work of the admirable student council report of 1931; they were designed to foster student discussions of the system and to draw general expressions of opinion from...
Chief function of Realty Stabilization Corp. will be to direct the refinancing of matured mortgages on the basis of present property valuations. The difference between this sum and the face value of the mortgages the corporation will supply from R. F. C. funds, the R. F. C. getting, in effect, second mortgages...