Word: dysart
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next morning he was up & around again as a man of affairs. With his house guest, Harry Hopkins, he talked over the future of the nearby Passamaquoddy tidal power project, now that Congress has definitely refused to authorize funds for its completion. Then, with his family, Premier Allison Dysart and several members of the New Brunswick Cabinet he went picnicking on a beach a mile from his home. There were only some 40 guests on the picnic, and Mrs. Roosevelt and the steward of the Presidential yacht Potomac succeeded in filling them adequately with roast beef, ham, salad and cake...
Enigmatically New Brunswick's masses marched to the polls. When their ballots were counted glum Conservative Tilley was forced to resign and in as Premier breezed Liberal Allison A. Dysart. This made New Brunswick the fifth of Canada's nine provinces to "turn the Conservatives out." Only the smallest province, Prince Edward Island, which will vote this month, remains Conservative. In Ottawa discouragement among Conservatives was so acute that within the Party there was talk that Mr. Bennett might abruptly retire and put in the field some other Conservative whom Canada's mob had not become accustomed...
...Bridge Bonds, Knight, Dysart & Gamble, St. Louis investment banking house, was sued last week by two clients who had purchased from them $38,700 of New Orleans-Pontchartrain Bridge Co. debenture bonds. The bonds defaulted in 1929, the company is now in receivership. The two plaintiffs, both laundrymen of St. Louis, said their life savings had been swept away. The suit against the bankers was based on charges of fraud. The laundrymen claimed the bankers had represented the bridge company as owning a franchise which protected it from competition for 20 years. Actually when the bonds were being sold...
Attorneys for the plaintiffs said they expected other suits to be filed by St. Louis investors who bought in all some $1,000,000 of the debenture and first mortgage bonds. Partners of Knight, Dysart & Gamble include Harry F. Knight and his son Harry Hall Knight, original backers of Lindbergh's flight to Paris...