Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...making concerns in the Midwest. Meeting for the first time under Wartime pressure, this trio found that they all thought and acted pretty much alike about their joint problems. Each spoke his mind bluntly. Each dug hard for facts. Each could put his theories into practice. A three-cornered friendship, Baruch-Johnson-Peek, was formed under Democratic President Wilson which 15 years later became the cornerstone for the next Democratic President's whole recovery program...
...deep friendship toward France on our part," read Jesse Isidor Straus, "calls for deep understanding from France. We are ready to cooperate with France . . . with the expectation that you will work with us. In that spirit I present my credentials...
...break the silence that I have imposed upon myself for the last two months and to inform you that for my, for yours, and for everybody else's tranquillity it is better not to think any more of my going to Bayreuth. With unchanged sentiments of affectionate friendship toward the entire Wagner family. . . ." The "lamentable events" Frau Wagner and all the world knew referred to the Nazi attacks which Chancellor Adolf Hitler has condoned, if not instigated, against Jewish musicians in Germany. Two months ago when Bruno Walter was forbidden to conduct in Leipzig and Berlin, when Conductor Otto...
...public stock flotations ("Just want you to know we were thinking of you") became the first clear ground for a public stand, and even here the ground was limited. Familiar enough with stockmarket tips, the average citizen could not, except in envy, condemn private individuals who enjoyed the friendship of the House of Morgan. But he could view with alarm the presence in public office of Morgan favorites. When Pennsylvania's Governor Pinchot found State Supreme Court Justices William I. Schaffer and John W. Kephart on the Morgan list, he first demanded their resignations to save the bother...
...accent when he came to him shortly after graduation from the Harvard Law School in 1906. Felix Frankfurter stayed long enough in Washington to gain the respect of President Wilson (who called him from Harvard in 1918 to head the War Labor Policies Board) and, more important, the lasting friendship of Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin Delano Roosevelt...