Word: lamonts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year bracket, will soon retire, that young Mr. Stettinius will within a reasonably short time become in fact Steel's "Mr. Statistics." Even before then he will probably become one of Steel's 15 directors along with J. P. Morgan, Thomas W. Lamont, Myron C. Taylor, James A. Farrell, George F. Baker, Walter S. Gifford and Sewell Avery. Today Little Stet is only 33. but as be fits a man who has already had a full career, he is practically white-haired. In 1926 he married Virginia Wallace, a Vir ginia girl. They have three children: Edward...
...changed hands many times. The last time was in 1923 when white-thatched Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, richest of U. S. publishing merchandisers, marched up from Philadelphia and bought it from a Wall Street syndicate which had acquired it only the year before from Morgan Partner Lamont. For years the Evening Post, for all its fine tradition, had been a money-loser. Briefly after 1923 it looked as if Publisher Curtis might succeed where Wall Street had failed. Through Son-in-law John Charles Martin, Mr. Curtis poured money lavishly into the Evening Post, gave it the finest new plant...
...carries a tacit implication of disapproval. Any government that attempts to maintain itself in the shadow of American condemnation leads a precarious existence indeed, for our political influence is enormous, and the size and importance of our economic stake was revealed in the ingenuous confessions of Mr. Wiggin, Mr. Lamont, Mr. Morgan and company...
...Government loans began to gall, he went to Washington to get them extended, spent $11,360 in 30 days on "entertainment." The Shipping Board's comptroller recommended disapproval of the extension because Export Steamship owed $3,952,000, had assets of only $1,172,199. Robert Patterson Lamont, then Secretary of Commerce, wrote the Shipping Board that he saw no objection in the 3-to-1 balance sheet...
...piece Symphony Orchestra, which annually gives a series of summer concerts in a football stadium donated by Oilman William Grove Skelly, determined to present Aïda. Carlo Edwards of the Metropolitan Opera, vacationing with his wife's relatives at Sand Springs, was asked to direct. Tenor Forrest Lamont of the defunct Chicago Opera (TIME, July 4, 1932) was called to sing Radames. He was the only non-Oklahoman in the cast which included a girls' chorus supplied by a high school. At the first of two performances, 6,000 Oklahomans paid $1.50 each...