Word: gerard
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
James Walter Gerard (Tues. 10:45 p. m. CBS), Wartime Ambassador to Germany, speaks for Chinese relief on China's Democracy...
...State Committeeman Charles Maliotis, who operates three restaurants and owns some real estate in Boston, called on James Roosevelt to ask him to run for Lieutenant Governor next autumn. James Roosevelt said he would think it over. In New York, a committee headed by onetime Ambassador to Germany James Gerard announced that at an elaborate reception on April 3 it would present an Albert Einstein medal to the President's 83-year-old mother Mrs. James Roosevelt for "a lifetime of devoted service to every communal cause in the country...
...most of the Roosevelts: 1) to get married, 2) to gain economic independence, 3) to become President of the U. S. Having attained the first he set out to get the second. Through the dean of the Law School he met a Boston insurance agent named Victor de Gerard-a onetime Cossack captain who escaped from Soviet Russia...
...Gerard connection did not last but James continued the insurance business with John Sargent, a shrewd Harvard-man, as Roosevelt & Sargent Inc. Son James sold a $2,500,000 policy to the American Tobacco Co. on the life of its President George Washington Hill. The Columbia Broadcasting System bought a like amount of the Roosevelt brand of insurance. In his first year with Sargent, James acquired $67,000 worth of independence. Business improved each succeeding year until James-now the richest of the Roosevelts excepting possibly his grandmother-is estimated to be worth half a million dollars...
...rumor at week's end that he planned soon to announce plans for starting a nationwide housing program financed by private capital and that the plans would include naming an outstanding capitalist, someone like U. S. Steel's Edward Stettinius Jr. or General Electric's Gerard Swope, to head the drive...