Word: lamonts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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 for receiving petitions?" "Each...
...June 3, 20 Manhattan banks formed American Securities Investing Corp. They agreed to place up to $100,000,000 at A. S. I. C.'s disposal and gave it $10,000,000 to start with. A. S. I. C., directed by Morgan Partners Thomas William Lamont and George Whitney, proceeded to buy bonds. If the company has done no better than the "averages." it may well have made 20% or $2,000,000 on its first $10,000,000.* But the directors, meeting last week, said nothing about paper profits, confined themselves to a modest interest payment...
...left for a month's honeymoon in Bermuda.* secretly boarded the S. S. American Legion, on which was a party of newshawks on vacation. Reception guests: Henry Ford. Supreme Court Justice Harlan Fiske Stone, Harold Fowler McCormick. Chase National Bank President Winthrop Williams Aldrich. Morgan Partner Thomas William Lamont...
...Lamont's book is brief, 180 pages, and pretends to be no more than an introductory study. He does not bring to the subject the intensity of conviction with which he advocated back-pay for the scrubwomen, and does not seek "to prove or disprove any idea of immortality," but to analyze certain definitions and descriptions together with the supporting arguments...
...late John Reed, the late Alan Seeger, the late John Macy. There is a Charles Townsend Copeland Association, with members all over the world. Every year it brings "Copey" to the Harvard Club in Manhattan, where he reads to a group which may include John Pierpont Morgan, Thomas William Lamont, George Palmer Putnam, Owen Wister. Two years ago "Copey" retired as Professor Emeritus. In his wry, quavering, sprightly voice he spoke of a horse that was "old. lame, spavined, moth-eaten, blind in one eye, and with ears drooping. However, it seemed peaceful and contented. That horse, gentlemen, was Emeritus...