Word: joined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Board by Vice Governor Edmund Plate, Poughkeepsie publisher, onetime (1913-21) Congressman. Last week the President was pictured as trying to "circumvent" the law in such a way as to get Mr. Meyer on the board. Circumvention, however, was unnecessary when Vice Governor Platt conveniently resigned to join Marine Midland Corp., thus making way on the Board for Mr. Meyer. (Prohibited by law from taking a bank job, Mr. Platt can nevertheless serve the potent Buffalo-centered holding company which owns many a bank...
Almost at once the galleries became full of fist fights. Not in years has British Labor's turbulent left wing given and taken so many sanguine noses. No less than nine ushers had to join forces to eject a burly young heckler who kicked and punched while he howled: "In the name of our 2,000,000 unemployed-down with Ramsay MacDonald...
...Realizing that another General Election is inevitable before many months, Messrs. Lloyd George and .MacDonald had agreed to join forces in an attempt to form a Coalition Government, not unlike David Lloyd George's last Ministry...
Last week Mr. Robinson hurried across the continent to join the other appointees of the new commission: Secretary of Agriculture Hyde, chairman, Chairman Legge of the Federal Farm Board, Chairman Bestor of the Farm Loan Board. Chairman Payne of the Red Cross, Chairman Young of the Federal Reserve Board, Chairman Aishton of the American Railway Association, Undersecretary of the Treasury Mills. President Hoover explained his friend's job: "Mr. Robinson has consented to serve for purposes of coordinating Federal with State and private credit activities." Secretary Hyde estimated that about $20.000,000 would have to be loaned drought-ridden...
Important among NYRBA's assets is its board chairman, able William Patterson MacCracken Jr., onetime Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics, who conducted the negotiations with P. A. A.'s able, youthful (31) President Juan Terry Trippe. He will probably join the P. A. A. administration...