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Notch No. 2. Because his Secretary of the Treasury is an industrialist and his Undersecretary, his Governor of the Federal Reserve Board and his Comptroller of the Currency are lawyers, President Roosevelt has long felt the lack of a first-rate banking brain to steer him through the technicalities of a managed currency. Last week he secured such a pilot in the person of Oliver Mitchell Wentworth...
John Sprunt Hill, Durham banker and industrialist, is one of North Carolina's richest citizens. He is also a State Senator. One day last fortnight grey-haired John Sprunt Hill rose from his desk in the Senate chamber at Raleigh, hunched his venerable shoulders and sang out loud & clear: "Chickadee, chickadee, chickadee...
...mercury. Sweet woman." Both murderers have been electrocuted. Wilmer Stultz, flyer who carried Amelia Earhart on her first trip across the Atlantic, was drunk, his brain subsequently proved to Toxicologist Gettler, when he killed himself and two passengers in a Long Island crash. Eben McBurney Byers. the Pittsburgh industrialist who died after prolonged drinking of radium water (TIME. April 11. 1932). "took the stuff," said Dr. Gettler. "for rejuvenation. He was a good man. He gave it to his friends. At first you feel fine. It bucks you up, for maybe six months. Then we get ready to put parts...
...years ago Walter Rautenstrauch, professor of industrial engineering at Columbia University and extra curricula a commercial industrialist, gave Howard Scott a room at Columbia, told him to put the Technosocial ideas on record...
...party's greatest industrialist, Owen D. Young, General Electric's board chairman, appeared in Manhattan to retort to the Republican campaign of fear: "It is no time to make threats. Markets as well as mobs respond to human emotions. Threats can destroy business just as they can build barricades. Let no one be afraid-let no one be coerced. . . . The plant manager who thinks he is indispensable to the plant and that no change can be made without ruin is likely to think that the old machine is better than the new, that scientific progress is a myth...