Word: loans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...went the hero of the Mitchell case, Lawyer Max Steuer. It was he who had persuaded the jury that Banker Mitchell's "dummy" stock sales had been perfectly legitimate, that the $666,666.67 which Mr. Mitchell had received from National City Co. was no taxable bonus but a loan, that his client was a financial martyr, not a tax slacker who had tried to defraud the Government of some $850,000. Well content, smart Lawyer Steuer was to be found at his office at No. 11 Broadway, working on more routine cases...
...will bring gladness to the hearts of at least 1,000 deserving Democrats. Last week, working in a swelter of job-hungry politicians, Postmaster James Aloysius Farley, patronage dispenser to the democracy, had prepared a list of i.ooo recipients of key positions in the Public Works and Home-owners Loan Administrations. The President, expected back at the White House this week, where he would begin to pay for the loyalty of a Congress which had denied him nothing, was to assign the jobs formally on Independence...
...this were done China and India could buy untold quantities of the World's products and ended with a bristling declaration: "China does not subscribe to any [Japanese] 'Monroe Doctrine' for the Far East." Shanghai cables reported that Dr. Soong obtained last week a British loan of ?20,000,000 but in London this was not confirmed...
...Long Trail" was written, Stod King's initials are carved on one of the big round table tops strung up around the wall. But his song is carved still deeper in the history of the War. Contralto Ernestine Schumann-Heink and Tenor Enrico Caruso sang it in Liberty Loan drives. Elsie Janis sang it in France from the back of a truck. The first U. S. troops to land in England marched in review to it before Ambassador Page and Admiral Sims. British soldiers sang it when they were lined up on deck waiting to be taken...
...fight against the Bethlehem-Youngstown merger that blasted his fame & fortune. He wanted Youngstown for his own big Republic Steel but the battle was fought in the name of industrial independence for the Midwest. To finance that battle Continental Shares pledged most of its assets for bank loans. The Eaton victory was Pyrrhic. By 1931 slumping stock prices pushed his loans under water and Cleveland bankers ousted him as president in favor of George Taylor Bishop, a semi-retired financier. Cyrus Eaton disappeared from the headlines as completely as if he had died. Last week bushy-browed old President Bishop...