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Into the New Deal. When the crash came, Morgan joined with other bankers to stem the tide. A $240,000,000 pool was formed to bolster the market-a gesture which failed. "There is no man nor group of men," said the top-ranking Morgan partner, realistic Thomas W. Lament, "who can buy all the stocks that the American public can sell." The market crashed on down. In 1933 came the New Deal, and with it the campaign against "princes of privilege" and "economic royalists...
...well do Roy Hendrickson and Parse Parisius know that the 1943 food problem will not be solved by exhortation and lament, but by painfully undoing the blunders which have reduced the "best-fed nation" to conditions in some places bordering on a food panic. Evidence of how badly someone had blundered...
...other camp. Huckleberry Mickey Fenn, the Cambridge Comet, proclaims his charges in superb shape for the tussle. Studded with power is the CRIMSON eleven, from J. Robert Mosking of Leverett House (I think) on one end to Finely Corliss Lament Van Vent far out on the other...
Before printing its series, the Seattle Times called Roscoe James Lamont, who is head of the Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corp. yards where Magnuson worked. Lament hit the ceiling: "If you run those articles you will be raising more hell than any bunch of people in the city of Seattle. . . . Your whole God-damned bunch ought to be ashamed of yourselves. You are giving the company, the men and the war effort a stab in the back. How in the hell can you call yourselves Americans? . . . How the hell do you suppose the boys overseas will feel...
Among the honorary members chosen was Thomas W. Lament '92, chairman of the executive committee of J. P. Morgan Company. At the same time, the following executives were chosen: President, Seth T. Gano '07, of Boston; Vice-President, Fred N. Robinson '91 of Cambridge; Acting Corresponding Secretary, Reginald H. Phelps '30, instructor in German and Assistant Dean of the College; and, Marshal, Samuel H. Cross '12, professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures...