Word: douglases
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most Hollywood badminton photographs exhibit it as an outdoor game. Actually, Hollywood is one of the few places where the vogue of badminton has taken root outdoors. Even there it belongs under cover, since the slightest breeze makes a badminton "bird" behave unpredictably. To offset this defect, Douglas Fairbanks has...
Invited last autumn to speak to the students of brokerage at the New "York Stock Exchange "Institute," SECommis-sioner William Orville ("Bill") Douglas stirred up a teapot tempest in Wall Street by unburdening himself on the "unestablished value" of customers' men, a financial tribe marked for early SEC attention...
When Mr. Douglas ended his address to the undergraduate customers' men. the genteel New York Times reported, "some of his hearers were dismayed by what they regarded as the cynical attitude of the speaker."
Last week Commissioner Douglas again journeyed to Manhattan to make a speech, this time to the well-heeled members of the Bond Club. Again he spoke his mind "unofficially" but with almost savage candor. Because his subject was broader, his suggestions more radical and, more important, because he is a...
When Mr. Douglas was introduced at the Bond Club lunch last week the members to a man rose to give the personable young commissioner a resounding welcome. When he finished talking there was only a sprinkle of clapping. The New York Herald Tribune observed in a notable understatement that the...