Word: gerard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...James W. Gerard, was-time ambassador to Germany, will preside at the Harvard-Oxford trans-Atlantic radio debate in the first week of December. Gerard was an associate justice of the Supreme Court of New York from 1908 to 1913, when he resigned to become ambassador to Germany. He was recalled upon the breaking off of diplomatic relations on February...
Married. Eleanor Hard, 26, daughter of Washington Correspondent William Hard (Consolidated Press As-sociation), staff worker on FORTUNE; and Gerard Kirsopp Lake, Manhattan textile man, son of Professor Kirsopp Lake (Ecclesiastical History) of Harvard; in Washington. A wedding guest: Mrs. Herbert Hoover. Bride's attendant: Countess Felicia Gizycka, daughter of Editrix Eleanor Medill Patterson of Hearst's Washington Herald...
When Lawyer James Watson Gerard, onetime (1913-17) Ambassador to Germany, arrived in Manhattan from Europe last week he was in a critical mood. He said President Hoover should up and say Prohibition is nonsense. He chided Manhattan's bankers for paying more attention to Germany than the U. S. He scolded big corporations for not giving out intelligible statements; he and Mrs. Gerard have some 2,300 shares of General Electric and he defied "any one to tell from the statements of this company what it is doing." Because Mr. Gerard has previously been known...
...this Gerard interview was only a prelude to a week replete with attacks on methodical bears. A few days later Law yer Gerard declaimed that shortselling is illegal because it is gambling, is as bad as setting fire to property. "It is selling something which the seller has not got and which he hopes to buy at a lower price, that lower price being made possible by the mere fact of the sale. . . . The result is that the stock which the small investor bought on margin ... is actually used as a club against...
...Street has pat answers to this attitude, it became apparent last week that more than pat answers may be necessary if anti-bear legislation is to be headed off. The first attack on bears will probably come from the New York Legislature. Through his business associate, Patrick Sullivan, Mr. Gerard last year presented a bill to make it necessary for a broker to obtain the written consent of an owner of stock before it can be loaned to shorts. The bill was shelved but will be aggressively revived this session by Assemblyman Sullivan, nephew of the Timothy Sullivan who sponsored...