Word: lamentable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Despite such chaos in ruble values the Soviet State Bank can boast that its bonds are endorsed by the second son of Morgan Partner Thomas William Lament. Son Corliss does not belong to the Communist Party, calls himself a "critical Communist sympathizer," has an extremely pretty wife who is a member of the Socialist Party. Last summer they toured Russia. Last week critical Corliss told a meeting of 500 Manhattan radicals to "Buy Soviet 10% bonds! They are the safest bonds on the market today. . . . The once stupid Russian peasant louts are now replaced by as intelligent a people...
...some unhonored Voltaire, (also, alas! unknown) to Shakespeare. But perhaps the author of "Mucedorus," the Edgar Wallace of his time, never aspired to Valhalia. . . Let us summon from Limbo instead the wraiths of John Gower, quondam peer of Chaucer; and of Stephen Hawes, his disciple: let us read the "Lament for the Makirs," and marvel...
...group of White House callers who did not see the President last week consisted of nine socialite women from New York and Chicago petitioning for the "constitutional rights" of the oncoming hunger marchers (see p. 10). Included in the delegation were Mrs. Corliss Lament, daughter-in-law of Morgan Partner Thomas William Lamont, New York's Mrs. William Osgood Field Jr., Chicago's colorful Mrs. Polly Chase Boyden. Secretary Joslin met them, told them they could not see the President. "Who made that decision?" asked Mrs. Field. "I did," replied Secretary Joslin. "Is this the usual procedure...
Thomas William Lament, No. 2 Morgan partner, speaking before the Academy of Political Science in Manhattan last week, caused bankers throughout the land to prick up their ears when he recommended Federal Reserve membership for every last commercial bank in the country. Declared Banker Lament...
...Lament is a good Republican but that did not deter him from flatly contradicting President Hoover's panicky campaign utterance that the U. S. had been "within two weeks of going off the gold standard." Said he: "Among all the alarums and excursions of the last twelve months we have never been near the point of abandoning the gold standard. Nothing can or will drive us from that standard. . . . American dollars are the safest things in all the world...