Word: howe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...began preparing for the hearings late in 1938 when SEC Chairman Bill Douglas summoned his Columbia University schoolmate (and brother in Beta Theta Pi) Ernest J. Howe, started him on a preliminary survey of U. S. life insurance. Bald Ernest Howe had had some eight years' investment-buying experience in Wall Street (with Blyth & Co., Inc. and Lehman Bros.), knew as well as any other wide-awake economist what tremendous capital reservoirs the insurance companies have become as holders of mortgages on the U. S., its States and municipalities and on U. S. farms and business...
Last week earnest Ernest Howe sat down before TNEC with a 322-page book on his knees, an array of charts alongside him. The book was his survey of the 26 largest of the U. S.'s 306 life insurance companies (selected for study because all had assets above $125,000,000;, and its long tables were filled with figures furnished by the companies themselves at SEC's request. From book and chart Witness Howe began to testify. Excerpts...
...essay, then settles down to a straightforward, less flighty account of Ella's dreamy girlhood in an irritable and defeated Wisconsin farm family, her indefatigable poem writing (sometimes eight a day), her conquering arrival in Milwaukee, her instinctive refusal of such rare, insufficiently flattering criticism as Julia Ward Howe's ("she thought [Ella's ability] might be developed into real talent with study and hard work"), her fatal love of making a sensation, gratified by the tempest of propriety that erected Poems of Passion, her brief affair with James Whitcomb Riley (his levity wounded her), her marriage...
Louis McHenry Howe, gnomish "no-man" to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, died in 1936. Since that time only one man has consistently said "No" to the President-and last week he said...
...Sever 29 Economics 121a Emerson D Engineering Science 12 Pierce 202 English 120a Sever 36 Fine Arts 9e Fogg Small Rm. French 21 Sever 29 Geography 4a Sever 18 Geography 10a Sever 24 Geology 2a Geol. Mus. 23B German E (see footnote*) Prof. Lieder, Sec. 1 Harvard 6 Dr. Howe, Sec. 2 Harvard 6 German 10 Sever 23 Government 19 Sever 18 Government 121a Sever 5 History 1 Mr. Berkowitz, Sec. 7, 12 Pre-Tutorial A, Conf. Group I Memorial Hall Mr. Billman, Sec. 18, 22 Pre-Tutorial B, Conf. Group II Memorial Hall Mr. Christopher...