Word: firms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Philip James Roosevelt, first cousin once removed of the late T. R., partner of the venerable investment firm of Roosevelt & Son, lately wrote to his distant cousin Franklin D., saying...
Chief obstacle to factual acceptance of the story: Roosevelt & Son last week denied that either the firm or Philip Roosevelt was trustee for any estate inherited by Franklin...
...referred to a telegram "which was read as though it were evidence [at the U. S. Senate inquiry] asserting that no less a person than His Majesty the King had sent for the Polish Ambassador and impressed upon him the importance of purchasing whatever he wanted from an English firm." Making no explicit denial, Sir John continued "Of course, that is perfectly and entirely grotesque. All of us, to whatever party we belong, know His Majesty to be perfectly incapable of having any connection with this silly story...
...some coast guard patrol boats.* Luckily the League of Nations settled the "war" in Colombia's favor, but the worried Colombians have lately been picking up bargains in second-hand war boats. Thus a U. S. steamer named the Commercial Traveler and belonging to the Philadelphia shipping firm of Moore & McCormack last June became a Colombian war boat. Because its 5,378 tons made it the biggest boat in the Colombian Navy, she was made flagship and renamed the Cacuta. Last week the Cacuta lay at Philadelphia's South Wharves, awaiting $25,000 worth of overhauling...
...real opportunity for reorganization and renewed strength as the only articulate Opposition likely to be heard in America for some time to come. It is the only bulwark against the evils inherent in a bureaucracy so unprecedented as that now being formed in Washington. It must take a firm stand on the issues that confront the next Congress: inflation, the bonus, restoration of pay-cuts, greatly increased taxation, and the all-important budget...