Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Assistant to the Secretary (at $10,000 a year) in charge of Neutrality operations having to do with shipping, tall, knife-nosed, wealthy Basil Harris quit his vice-presidency of U. S. Lines in Manhattan. The better to watch over U. S. ports, he also became Commissioner of Customs, succeeding venerable (80), goateed James Henry Moyle of Utah. Spry Mr. Moyle during part of World War I was an Assistant Secretary. Last week he was gently upped to Assistant again, temporarily without portfolio...
...World War II. They were three bankers: able, affable Tom K. Smith, 57, of St. Louis, a distinguished veteran of the Liberty Loan campaigns in 1917-19, who in 1939 is to be "a sort of coordinator of all banking problems for the Treasury"; Warren Randolph Burgess, 50, of Manhattan's National City Bank, a military statistician during World War I, recalled to duty last week as an expert on Government financing; shining-eyed Earle Bailie, 48, of J. W. Seligman & Co., drafted to gauge war's effects on international exchange...
Twenty World's Fair midgets, who registered for German military duty with Manhattan's German Consulate. Cracked an observer: "They'd be hard...
...Manhattan, Thursday, July 30, 1914 dawned chill and damp. Europe had whelped the first World War and the morning sun, hidden from Wall Street behind a grey overcast, stippled with afternoon gold the dusty packs of Austrian infantrymen marching down to Servia and Armageddon. After the Stock Exchange had closed for the day, Manhattan's top-flight bankers gathered in the office of young (46) J. P. Morgan who 16 months before on the death of his late great father had become head of the most powerful banking house in the U. S. They gathered to discuss ways & means...
...businessman waved away Wilhelm's ultimatum as "pure bluff." At 23 Wall Street Mr. Morgan & friends emerged from meeting after three hours, confident there would be no World War. They announced the New York Exchange would remain open as long as there were buyers. Then they left dank Manhattan...