Word: great
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...late great Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes twirked his sweeping cavalry mustache, drawled to his chubby Irish protege, Tommy Corcoran...
...corporation and other law. His office in Wall Street-shared with various capable partners-flourished through the worst years of Depression: from 1932 to 1938 Louis Levy made $1,396,000. In 1933 alone he made $336,000. He bought Harold Vanderbilt's Palm Beach villa. He had great clients-among them American Tobacco Co. Defending him last week was the famed, high-priced lawyer and onetime Presidential candidate, John W. Davis...
Business. The U. S. should stay out of the war, cooperate economically with Great Britain and France. "There is nothing that businessmen the world over fear and detest quite so much as war. ... I wish someone would run down the sources of the idea that businessmen are inclined to war. ... In recent years we have seen Japan's aggressions in Asia, and Italy's in Africa, and Hitler's. ... Is there anyone in his right mind who would suggest that these acts of violence . . . have been favored or promoted by business interests...
...form of economic cooperation necessary to "establish peace, recovery and re-employment" he would not guess, mentioned an economic union of countries in Western Europe, of a United States of Europe, spoke of its "immensely stabilizing effect" upon the world. "It would be measurably the counterpart of the great free-trade area of our own United States. ... It would be creating a situation that tended strongly to remove at their very roots the causes...
...have a great many reasons. Would you like to hear them...