Word: go-between
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...go is largely conjectural. An interesting body of legend has accumulated of which the following is a partial analysis: Legend: Cord contributed $1,000,000 to Roosevelt's campaign. Probable fact: $23,000 is nearer right. Legend: Amon Carter of Texas was Cord's prime Washington go-between. Cord stood ready to back Mr. Carter in buying the Washington Post. Fact: Mr. Carter, who sold his Aviation Corp. stock [500 shares] after Cord got control, has never been obliged to Mr. Cord, but knows him well. Legend: Silliman Evans. 4th Assistant Postmaster General, is Cord's Washington...
...placed in charge of industrial relations. Two years ago he became a vice president, and, still spreading his activities, took charge of the Share-the-Work movement in the 2nd Federal Reserve District under Standard Oil's Teagle. Last June he was summoned to Washington to act as go-between between the tycoons of the Industrial Advisory Board and the hard-boiled theorists of NRA. There he worked at his usual swift pace and demanded the same of his subordinates. One minute he would put in a long distance telephone call and the next grab up the receiver...
When the late Alexander Berg, wealthy St. Louis fur dealer, was kidnapped in November 1931, his abductors forced him to sign a letter appointing one Paul A. Richards, St. Louis criminal lawyer, as go-between. To Lawyer Richards the kidnapped man was forced to send a promissory note for $50,000 to be converted into cash and paid to the abductors after Berg's release. Lawyer Richards went immediately to Berg's attorney, Morris Levinson, demanded $11,000 for his proposed services on behalf of the kidnapped man-$1,000 to be paid immediately, $10,000 when Berg...
Ever since greying Harvard Professor Oliver Mitchell Wentworth Sprague became Economic Adviser to the Bank of England (TIME, Jan. 27, 1930), he has kept his mouth shut. Hearstian suspicions that he might be Wall Street's go-between in maneuvers to scale down Europe's War debts to the U. S. have slowly died out. Last week Professor Sprague, now an accepted and respected figure in "The City" (London's financial district), created a stir by stating his conviction that Prosperity can be restored in industrial countries by creating a demand for a new product-such...
...rise of Widower Charles Curtis from the Senate to the Vice-Presidency brought other members of his family to public attention. Two years ago his son Harry, a Chicago lawyer, was under investigation for operating as a go-between in contracts for new Government buildings. His clients complained that he had taken fees on the promise to get them fat construction jobs. Son Harry hotly denied that he had ever promised any such thing...