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...Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System says he is a capitalist and a conservative. Some time before the 1929 collapse Mr. Eccles perceived that all was not well with the U. S. economic system. Starting with the farm debt problem in Utah, this Republican banker-industrialist groped outward toward the larger questions of unemployment and insecurity as it developed in the early years of Depression, arriving independently at the same conclusions reached by the Brain Trust during the Roosevelt campaign. Few days before March 4, 1933, Mr. Eccles laid before a Senate committee a plan, which turned...
Manhattan-born in 1791 of English stock, shrewd, self-made Peter Cooper pioneered in iron manufacturing, built the first U. S. steam locomotive ("Tom Thumb"), promoted the first transatlantic cables, built one of the first big U. S. fortunes. An industrialist and inventor of genius, he won his most lasting fame by founding Manhattan's great free educational centre, Cooper Union. His creed...
...Germany last week the individual manufacturer or industrialist was forbidden to divulge how much he has been called on to contribute, forbidden to find out how much his keenest competitor is being assessed. Menaced with fresh Nazi warnings that there must be no grumbling, German industrialists big and small were paying up, but their disgruntlement was such that it could not be concealed. Privately they tipped off foreign correspondents that Economic Tsar Schacht's assessments are, in nearly all cases, heavy enough to absorb the harassed manufacturers' 1934 profits, and in many cases so heavy as to turn...
...will dispel the rumor that 'September Morn' now is living in poverty," said he last week. "She isn't. She is 41 now, and alas, she is no longer as slender as when she posed for me. She is happily married to a wealthy French industrialist and has three lovely children. I cannot tell her name because she does not want to be embarrassed with remembrances of the days when she posed in the nude. . . . She was only 16 when I first started the picture. ... I think I succeeded in capturing her delicate charm. She was exactly...
...professionally impartial Chairman Sir John Eldon Bankes, a retired Lord Justice of Appeal, will be assisted by ex-War Correspondent Sir Philip (Now It Can be Told) Gibbs, Dame Rachel Crowdy of the League of Nations élite antinarcotic squad, Editor-Historian J. Alfred Spender, Lancashire Industrialist Sir Kenneth Lee, Dean Harold Cooke Gutheridge, Law Professor at Cambridge University and Sir Thomas Allen, chief of the Socialist Co-operative Insurance Society, a thorn in British munitions makers' sides...