Word: hartfords
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Groceryman John Hartford was not the only one who lost money in Brigadier General Elliott Roosevelt's 1939 radio ventures (TIME, June 25). Last week, as the Treasury Department, the Bureau of Internal Revenue and two Congressional committees tried to unwind the General's lighthearted deals, two other men-with-money-to-invest admitted that they also had lent Elliott money, most of which they never saw again...
...Bradley, of Lowell, a geologist, author, and former Associate professor of Geology at the University of Southern California; Starting Dow, associate professor of History at Harvard; Edward V. Huntington, professor of Mathematics, emeritus, at Harvard; Nathan M. Pusey, President of Lawrence College, Appleton, Wisconsin; and Wallace Steven, of Hartford, a lawyer and poet
...Hartford wrote off his loss ($196,000) on his 1942 income tax as a bad debt...
...forgotten rearguard action which A. & P. has been fighting with the U.S. Government became front-page news again. Last week A. & P. and its public relations firm of Carl Byoir & Associates were sweating through a federal trial in Danville, Ill., charged with violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act. John Hartford, home in Valhalla, N.Y., sweated through a golf game, spluttered: "I'll have to talk to my lawyer...
Congressmen wanted a lot of things explained. One thing which needed explaining: why Hartford had dished out $200,000 to Elliott Roosevelt, whom he had never met before. With his sights on Brigadier General Roosevelt, Pegler suggested: "Hartford had a profound respect for the office of President of the U.S. and may have thought it was an honor to be asked to assist the son of a President." With its sights on "all concerned," the Washington Post commented acidly: "The precise nature of Mr. Hartford's interest in making the loan is open to serious question...