Word: franked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Securities & Exchange Commission- Jerome Frank. (Alternate: William O. Douglas...
Frown for Hague. Before he concluded, with a Chinese homily, Franklin Roosevelt did something his "liberal" friends have been wishing he would do for some weeks. Indirectly yet unmistakably, he frowned on the Vice Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Boss Frank Hague of Jersey City, whose suppression of C. I. O. and Communists has earned him national fame as a foe of civil liberties. Said the head of the Democratic Party...
...overpowering and unpredictable as lightning. But bald, compact Banker Herbert Henry Lehman, who served under Franklin Roosevelt as lieutenant governor of New York from 1929 to 1933, and succeeded him in Albany when he went to the White House, has yet to be overpowered by his old friend Frank. Since Governor Lehman saw fit to attack the President's Court Plan last year, he has become an increasingly candid friend. Last week, independent Governor Lehman abruptly swept some of the Administration's political calculations into a cocked...
...modest way, Publisher Thomason has also emulated this kind of success. In four years, the Times's circulation has grown from 152,813 to 349,855, passing Hearst's morning Herald & Examiner and lacking about 80,000 to equal Hearst's evening American and Colonel Frank Knox's evening News. The Tribune, with a daily circulation of over 825,000, remains Chicago's biggest paper...
...city of 500,000 population except Washington, D. C. has five daily newspapers. Result has been that only one- Frank Brett Noyes's stodgy Star-has made money; seldom have they achieved any particular journalistic distinction. Five years ago among the least distinguished was the Post. When former Federal Reserve Board Governor and RFC Chairman Eugene Meyer bought the rundown property in 1933 for $825,000, few thought that a banker, entering the publishing business at the age of 57, would make newspaper history...