Word: harvey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...score of financiers met last week at the House of Morgan. Hosts were Morgan Partners Thomas William Lament and Thomas Cochran. Among others present were Owen D. Young, George Fisher Baker, Alfred Emanuel Smith, Charles Hayden, Charles Edwin Mitchell, Myron Charles Taylor. They organized a citizens committee, made Harvey Dow Gibson, president of Manufacturers Trust Co. chairman, set out to raise $10,000,000 to give semi-public work to jobless married men. ¶ Describing the recently reorganized U. S. Employment Service as an "ineffective set-up," Fred I. Jones resigned last week as its director general, having held...
...crude tented amphitheatre set among the Ozarks of Arkansas last week was made the first presidential nomination for 1932. Nominee of the Liberty Party was William Hope ("Coin") Harvey, So, half-blind veteran of the "free silver" era of politics. His nominators were half a thousand discouraged Republicans, disgruntled Democrats, disgusted Socialists, Populists and Independents who gathered from 25 States. Plain, thin-pursed men with faces stamped with sun and soil, most of them were in overalls or shirt sleeves. Theirs, they needed no realist to tell them, was a hopeless gesture against the two major parties but at least...
William Hope Harvey was born in what is now Putnam County. West Virginia. He practiced law in Chicago, moved to Denver, mined silver, made money, listened to debates on the silver question. No economist, he published in 1894 a pamphlet called "Coin's Financial School," in which "Professor Coin" held a series of imaginary interviews with leading bankers, farmers, editors, on free silver coinage as a political cureall. "Professor Coin's" financial sophistries were made to defeat and convince all-comers. Within a year Harvey had sold 1,000,000 copies of his pamphlet to debt-ridden farmers...
...years of Depression brought "Coin" Harvey again to the fore with all his old remedies for relief. To his rococo amphitheatre rimmed around with huge signboards inscribed with his fiscal dogma, he summoned his followers, and announced: "Usury has its deadly grip on all governments. A new political party must come quickly into action or civilization itself will be lost. The people have awakened. The hour is at hand...
...When Mr. Harvey intimated that he was too old to run for President, a great wrangle developed at the convention. Thereupon Mr. Harvey changed his mind, declared: "Rather than see the party fall into the hands of those who might disrupt it, I the nomination accept." Cheers echoed throughout the Ozark hills. For Vice President the Liberty Party nominated one Andrae Nardskog, 45, president of the Southwest Water League of California...