Word: lamentable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only because it was an external obligation payable in a foreign currency. U. S. citizens who bought United Kingdom pound sterling bonds before September, 1931 have been getting depreciated currency payments along with His Majesty's subjects since Britain went off gold. In December 1931. Banker Thomas William Lament, appearing before a Senate committee, made this observation: "One has to draw a very sharp distinction between the external obligations of any government, payable in the currencies on the markets where those obligations are issued and their own internal obligations. On their internal obligations they have a right...
...Shaw graciously waiving his fee. He stepped forth springily from the wings just before 8:30 p. m., apparently misinformed about the hour of the NBC broadcast, which was 8:45 p. m. He fussed with his beard, rustled his notes and twinkled professionally at Morgan Partner Thomas W. Lament and Banker Jackson Eli Reynolds, present to sponsor and introduce him. At length, when the radiomen, signalled ready and Banker Reynolds made the necessary gestures, the whiskery, long-shanked Irishman arose and began...
...York Bank were gathered: Thomas Lament and Russell Leffingwell, stalwarts of the House of Morgan, Frank Altschul of Lazard Freres, Richard Whitney, president of the Stock Exchange, Mortimer Buckner, head of the Clearing House, Joseph Broderick, State Superintendent of Banks, President Gordon Rentschler of National City Bank and James Perkins, its chairman-successor of Charles Edwin Mitchell whose downfall had helped precipitate the national crisis...
Others who had promised to appear during the first fortnight of the investigation included: Publisher Paul Block, International Harvester's Alexander Legge, John Francis Hylan, onetime Mayor of New York, Packard's Alvan Macauley, United Mine Workers' John Llewellyn Lewis, Morgan Partner Thomas William Lament, Prudential's Edward Dickinson Duffield, Delaware & Hudson's Leonor Fresnel Loree, Statistician Leonard Porter Ayres, Pundit Walter Lippmann, Chase Bank's Winthrop Williams Aldrich, National Farmers' Union's John Andrew Simpson, Anaconda's Cornelius Francis Kelley, Alfred Emanuel Smith, Pennsylvania R. R.'s William Wallace...
Wall Street has heard for some time that First Security's directors-John P. Morgan, Thomas W. Lament, Myron C. Taylor, Walter S. Gifford, Arthur Curtiss James. Harold S. Vanderbilt-stand ready to bolster the company if creditors grow impatient...