Word: edgar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There are few U. S. embassies that have been better filled than that at Tokyo since last fall. It was slightly less than a year ago that Mr. Coolidge named Edgar Addison Bancroft, Ambassador to Japan (TIME, Sept. 8). The new Ambassador was a Chicago lawyer who had never before held public office. He had been attorney for several railways-the Santa Fe, the Chicago & Western Indiana-and for the International Harvester Co. He had come into prominence in 1894 when he procured an injunction against the railway strikers who had tied up almost all the railways entering Chicago...
...President named Edgar Bernard Brossard of Utah to be a member of the U. S. Tariff Commission. Mr. Brossard has served the Commission as an economist since 1923, and is represented as a high tariff advocate. Senator Smoot recommended him. This is President Coolidge's third appointment to the Commission-all three, including one Conservative Democrat, are high-tariff advocates. With Chairman Marvin and Mr. Glassie, who are of the same opinions, the high-tariff advocates control the Commission five to one. A year ago, a low-tariff group of Democrats and Progressive Republicans controlled the Commission...
...across the Bay, on the Nahant promontory, the home of the late Senator himself. On the grounds is also a swimming pool which the President examined but expressed no intention of using. Its temperature is 55° ?a good deal warmer than the bay itself, into which Lieutenant Edgar Allen Poe, commanding the Maine Guard, leads his men early every morning for a plunge. There is a garage-stable for six automobiles and four horses...
...cause for this (probably) unprecedented change of fortune was due, in large part, as prospective Premier Edgar N. Rhodes said, to "the people who have risen in their might to wipe out a government which through long tenure of office has regarded itself as all-powerful and in consequence has lost touch with the people...
Back of the dispute about the inquirer's $100,000, as a matter of fact, lie several serious questions of economic theory. Some months ago, a Wall Street iconoclast, Edgar L. Smith, wrote a book, Common Stocks as Long Term Investments, which proved that shares were better long pull investments than bonds. This caused no small ruffling in the Wall Street dovecote, especially among its bond houses, but Mr. Smith's figures were persuasive. Now, with the public seriously preferring shares to bonds, some Wall Street bond dealers feel that the pendulum is swinging...