Word: dows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thirty years ago Harvey Dow Gibson came out of Maine, like Rudy Vallee, with an orchestra of college boys behind him. Unlike Rudy Vallee he did not become a nation-famed crooner, but last week he waved a baton for a band composed of all the great New York banking houses. And sweet was his music to the ears of depositors in seven small broken banks in and around the city. The tune said they would get an immediate payment of 50 per cent of their $42,000,000 total deposits, more later. Maestro Gibson's once precarious...
...Harvey Dow Gibson was born in North Conway. N. H. Now he lives on a great estate at Locust Valley. He rides after hounds with the Meadowbrook and wears on his chin the scar of a fall. Every morning his sleek cruiser Mystery awaits him in his own yacht basin to take him to Manhattan. Not always has he sped to work on a yacht. First, without much delight, he swept out the offices of American Express Co. in Boston. He turned out to be quite a broom. In a few years he had swept himself into place as financial...
...rousing, tingling exhorter. It was known that he had been shot at twice last spring when he was lambasting St. Louis in a campaign to clean up gambling. Jones- boro was glad to have him back, especially when he went at once to shout defiance at his rival, Rev. Dow H. Heard, 35. Redhaired, rangy, lantern-jawed, pastor of the First Baptist Church, Evangelist Jeffers, Jonesboro believed, was trying to oust Mr. Heard from his pastorate. He had accused Mr. Heard of immorality in Big Spring, Tex. Some of Evangelist Jeffers' men started in an automobile to Big Spring...
...score of financiers met last week at the House of Morgan. Hosts were Morgan Partners Thomas William Lament and Thomas Cochran. Among others present were Owen D. Young, George Fisher Baker, Alfred Emanuel Smith, Charles Hayden, Charles Edwin Mitchell, Myron Charles Taylor. They organized a citizens committee, made Harvey Dow Gibson, president of Manufacturers Trust Co. chairman, set out to raise $10,000,000 to give semi-public work to jobless married men. ¶ Describing the recently reorganized U. S. Employment Service as an "ineffective set-up," Fred I. Jones resigned last week as its director general, having held...
...have shown interest are King Zog I of Albania; Count Ilya Tolstoy, son of the late great novelist; Mrs. Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler, wife of New York's onetime Lieutenant Governor, whose daughter was married in a Baha'i ceremony (TIME, March 10, 1930); Solon Fieldman, onetime Socialist leader; Dow ager Queen Marie of Rumania...