Word: friend
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...white-haired Whitney Warren, smart and picturesque Manhattan architect, who designed the new Library, and received from Cardinal Mercier the virile Latin inscription. Last week Mr. Warren was in Belgium bristling against the would-be emasculators. "The nigger in the woodpile," said he scathingly, "has evidently been my dear friend, Nicholas Murray Butler, President of the Carnegie Foundation for International Peace. . . . The people of Belgium want the inscription and I might add, a very large majority of the American contributors do also. ... In America the lives of so-called free American citizens are made unbearable by those two pests...
...Department of State because she was full of "moral turpitude," once wrote a novel called The Woman Tempted. It has now come to the U. S. in the form of a British film. It is not immoral, though it depicts a very bad London society woman who steals a friend's fiance and drives him to suicide. In the end, justice is done...
Last week, without controversy, all 20 Directors were reelected, including five Harvard men who are Directors of the Old Colony Trust Co. of Boston, traditional financial friend of the company. A 21st was also elected: Henry C. McEldowney, President of the Union Trust Company of Pittsburgh, who added Mellon strength to the strength of Old Colony, Morgan, Baker, Bankers Trust and Lee Higginson...
...Count, whose name is de Guell, is essential because he is a close friend of Spanish Dictator Primo de Rivera from whom the Compania Telefonica Nacional de Espana (dominated by the I. T. & T.) got an almost unrestricted concession to operate all the telephones of Spain, now and hereafter...
Hitherto foreign directors of major U. S. corporations have represented foreign investment in the U. S. These Spaniards signify the opposite: U. S. interests in foreign countries. When the Marques de Urquijo's heir came to the U. S. to learn banking, reporters captioned him as "Friend of J. P. Mor-gan." The youth was not, in fact, on chitchatting terms with Mr. Morgan; it was merely that the House of Morgan, in the I. T. & T. and other affairs, was associated with the House of Urquijo. Just as Mr. Morgan had gone in his youth to London, then...