Word: lamonts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...word "tariff" was not used by Thomas William Lamont, but he softly voiced the House of Morgan's opinion that "artificial barriers against foreign trade" should be discouraged. "Some of our fellow-citizens think we can do all the selling and the other fellow all the buying. That has never been true," said...
Married. Gertrude Lamont, daughter of U. S. Secretary of Commerce Robert Patterson Lamont; and Charles Eskridge Saltzman, son of Major General Charles McKay Saltzman who is Chairman of the Federal Radio Commission; in Washington. At this first "Cabinet wedding'' in the present Administration were present President & Mrs. Herbert Hoover, among the ushers was Son Allan Hoover...
...walks the four miles between home and office, makes the trip in about an hour and five minutes. He considers his wife "51% of our private corporation." A remarkable Hughes trait is an unbending and unbroken silence on the matter of his first given name. He is always I. Lamont; what the "I" indicates none will divulge. Mr. Hughes's first Steel job (in 1897) was with Carnegie Steel. In addition to a long period of field work he has also served as vice president of U. S. Steel, is therefore equally at home in the mills...
...dense, but read as I will I can make nothing but nonsense out of your People paragraph (TIME, April 13) on Heywood Broun, T. W. Lamont and Cardinal Gibbons. Why shouldn't the Pope call Gibbons Gibbons? Or is that the point, that he did call him Gibbons, thus proving his infallibility? But what's so funny about that? Or isn't it supposed to be funny? But if not, why tell it as an anecdote? And if it is funny-well, I'm sorry...
...newspaper friend asked him: 'Now that you have been to the Vatican do you still believe in the infallibility of the Pope?' and Cardinal Gibbons smiled and said : 'Well, he called me Jibbons.' " The identical story had been told by Morgan Partner Thomas William Lamont at last fortnight's Academy of Political Science dinner for Walter Lippmann (TIME, March 30). At that dinner, Colyumist Broun sat near the speakers' table. Reminded of this, honest Colyumist Broun cried: "Oh, I must have got it from him! ... I couldn't remember." At White Plains...