Word: harvey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ethiopian concession developed this week when the leaky old French steamer Porthos limped into Suez bearing Promoter Rickett. If that Briton had been a crowned head, he could not have been received, according to local newshawks, with greater consideration by Anglo-Egyptian officials. Suez Chief of Police Frank Harvey took the promoter off in a special launch, assigned a squad of detectives to guard him as he hurried from the canal area to Egypt proper. At the barrier an Egyptian officer snapped to salute and Francis M. Rickett drove off escorted by a motorcade of Egyptian troops, with a machine...
...will not be surprised to learn that instead of being fired Steve Grey gets a bonus. Of more consequence is the probability that they will fail to be surprised also at the contents of Steve Grey's story. The story, a death-house interview with an investment racketeer (Harvey Stephens) whom Grey's testimony has helped to convict and whose arrest and trial he has covered with breath-taking efficiency, is meant to afford the denouement of the film and, handled with more care, it might have been an exceedingly effective melodramatic twist. Unfortunately, Authors Tim Whelan...
...major theory to President Roosevelt but who is no longer a frequent White House caller.* Also on hand was Professor Oliver Mitchell Wentworth Sprague, the Treasury's hard money adviser, who quit his post in 1933 as a protest against the prevailing Warren theories. Another was Professor James Harvey Rogers, who lost caste in Washington for criticizing the Administration's silver policies. There was even a self-appointed New Deal economist, Britain's Major Lawrence Lee Bazley Angas, prophet of coming U. S. booms...
...Although when he was a lawyer in Little Rock, many of his best clients were utility companies, although Harvey Couch, potent Arkansas utilitarian, is a better personal friend of his than Franklin Roosevelt, Leader Robinson loyally voted for the TVAmendments to enlarge and improve the President's power yardstick, even more loyally paired his vote to help the Senate approve (45-10-44) the "death sentence" on utility holding companies...
...finds time to travel abroad as a statesman, a taste which he acquired from attending Interparliamentary Union conferences in England and serving as delegate to the London Disarmament Conference in 1930. For fun he likes nothing better than to go fishing and shooting (he is a crack shot) with Harvey Couch in the Ozarks or Bernard Baruch at Hobcaw Barony in South Carolina. He created 3 sensation in Scotland by the bag he brought down the first time in his life he went out for grouse. And when he walks into his Washington office and hangs his panama and stick...