Word: hartfords
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hartford boys have not been bested in the sprints or 100-yard events this season, and Tyler brother Dave, the biggest wheel of the trio who last week topped the Trinity spring record with a 24:3 clock-reading, has been beaten in the 220 only by Williams' Captain Dave Maclay, New England Champion...
...testimony came out through a House Ways & Means Committee inquiry into a tax question: should the lender, John A. Hartford, president of the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., be permitted a $196,000 income-tax deduction for his loss on the loan? By a strict Democratic majority, the committee voted not to challenge the deduction. Minority Republicans dissented. They also carefully noted the history of the loan, as described in testimony before the Bureau of Internal Revenue, and thereby recorded one of the most unusual chapters in the history of the 31st President...
...Contact. Hartford had told how Elliott Roosevelt, struggling to finance his Texas State Network, Inc., a radio chain, came to him in 1939 and wanted to borrow the $200,000. He testified that Elliott came at the President's suggestion. To prove it to A. & P.'s Hartford, Elliott got the President on the telephone. Testified Hartford...
...wanted to settle up his tangled financial affairs at home, President Roosevelt got into the deal again, by the minority's account; he sent the stalwart Texan Democrat. Jesse Jones, to settle the loan, on which no payments, either of interest or principal, had been made. Jones gave Hartford $4,000 and got back the Texas State Network stock that had been security for the loan...
...loans, Mr. Baird said bravely, were "private and personal investments entered into for profit because [they] carried for the lenders an option to purchase stock in the network. . . . The gains could have been substantial." Baird and Bilofsky were luckier than Groceryman Hartford, who lent Elliott $200,000, got back...