Word: harvey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Died. Harvey Parnell, 55, onetime (1928-32) Governor of Arkansas whose administration was characterized by the Arkansas House of Representatives as the "most corrupt since the days of Reconstruction"; of a heart ailment; in Little Rock...
...weeks later management passed into the hands of Harvey Dow Gibson, who with some friends bought working control from old Goldman Sachs Trading Corp. for $7,300,000. When President Gibson decided to inspect his new offices in Manufacturers Trust, he started from New York Trust Co., where he was executive committee chairman, walked briskly a few blocks, hesitated, finally had to ask a policeman to direct him to the bank he had just bought...
...last year Mr. Gibson reported net operating income of $6,645,000, up from $5,163,000 in 1934. Another $6,000,000 was chalked up last year for recoveries and profits from securities. Total resources at the year end stood 100% above the figure five years ago. Harvey Dow Gibson placed his money on Recovery...
Author Cozzens does not make the usual formal disclaimer: that all his characters are fictitious. Even if he had, many an Episcopalian reader would have recognized at least two likenesses-Bishop William T. Manning, onetime Father Harvey Officer-may think they see in his hero a similarity to the late Rev. Ralph Pomeroy...
Said Tiremaker Harvey Samuel Firestone in Jacksonville, Fla.: "Federal production control and continued tax increases are very harmful, although I want it understood that I am not in the least antagonistic toward the Roosevelt Administration...