Word: josiah
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Midland & Scottish Railway's sample Royal Scot express train which last summer steamed around Canada and the U. S. and was exhibited at Chicago's Century of Progress (TIME, May 22), George V sent written congratulations which were read last week by L. M. S. Chairman Sir Josiah Stamp as the far-wandering Scot steamed into Euston Station...
...anxious to see their dollar as stable as our own currency. . . . If the [NRA] experiment fails it means another period of depression in the United States and that cannot occur without hav ing its effect on us." Same night in London the Roosevelt experiment was sardonically described by Sir Josiah Stamp, rotund Board Chairman of the London, Midland & Scottish Railway, a Director of the Bank of England and a leading Empire economist often consulted by Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald. "They began by rattling President Roosevelt's new powers like a bag of tools," smiled Sir Josiah. "They hoped...
...that "extreme instrument" in the Roosevelt tool bag, the Securities Act, Sir Josiah chuckled: "They designed it to protect investors but in their enthusiasm Congress so framed it as to make it impossible to draw up a prospectus so as to raise money...
...best Sir Josiah could say of U. S. prospects was that "the United States may succeed, in spite of herself, because of her youth and vigor...
...gentle propaganda for Springfield citizens and the conservative trustees who must approve his every purchase Director Josiah P. Marvel also borrowed for his opening from dealers, private collectors and the College Art Association a fine group of paintings and drawings by U. S. and European modernists...