Word: lamonts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grouse-shooting in Scotland, was reported to have had a secret conference with Governor Norman just before the Britannic left Cobh (Queenstown). Governor Eugene Meyer of the Federal Reserve was at his country place in Mt. Kisco, N. Y. Attention came to sharp focus when Morgan Partner Thomas W. Lamont was discovered at North Haven, Me., only 35 miles from Bar Harbor. Two grave problems might have brought Governor Norman across the Atlantic: reduction of Europe's War debts, and the possible return of Britain to the gold standard. To all Press inquiries Mr. Norman stroked his silver brush...
With "extreme regret" President Hoover lost a fourth member of his original Cabinet last week. Chicago's Robert Patterson Lamont resigned as Secretary of Commerce.* Next day Charles Michael Schwab, Bethlehem Steel's chairman, announced that Mr. Lamont would be elected president of the American Iron & Steel Institute...
Compact, kinetic, quick-spoken, the new Secretary of Commerce is a typical high-pressure salesman, called to Washington to sell U. S. business the idea of economic recovery. Most Cabinet officers, including Mr. Lamont, have lapsed into cautious silence after.being badly burned by fruitless predictions of rapidly returning prosperity. Undaunted by their experience, Mr. Chapin last week began his job even before he took office by rushing into print with a splurge of economic good cheer.* To spellbound newshawks he ejaculated...
Politically, President Hoover let Secretary Lamont go because the Chicagoan was of small practical help toward carrying Illinois. Mr. Lamont's Cabinet service was quiet, plodding, unspectacular. The President needs a more active, hustle- bustling figure to dramatize any business recovery, no matter how small, which might come before election. Mr. Chapin's appointment not only seemed to clinch Michigan for the Hoover-Curtis ticket but, of more importance, to open the automobile industry's money bags to the G. O. P. campaign...
Married. Eleanor Allen Lamont, daughter of Morgan Partner Thomas William Lamont; and Charles Crehore Cunningham Howard Jr.; in Manhattan...