Word: marchings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...close: 12-to-11. It was particularly painful to Cordell Hull because one of those who voted against him was his old friend Walter George of Georgia, upon whom he had exerted long and prayerful suasion. Now revision of Neutrality was lost, probably unless and until Adolf Hitler should march, and then Mr. Hull thought it would be too late...
Like many another Italian War hero, young Dino Grandi had turned to the post-War Fascist movement to satisfy an acquired taste for action. He rose fast and, as Chief of Staff for the Quadrumvirs, stage-managed the March on Rome and Mussolini's meeting with King Vittorio Emmanuele III. In 1929, when he was 34, Dictator Mussolini promoted him from Undersecretary to Minister of Foreign Affairs...
...March 1931 occurred another event which was to be one of the most momentous in United's history. It boosted its holdings to a dominant (22.1%) interest in upper New York's giant utility, Niagara Hudson Power Corp. (assets then $784,298,192). This deal elevated someone new to a dominant position in United: an extraordinary young banker named Floyd Carlisle, who has always been thought of as a "Morgan man," and is today the No. 1 U. S. utility magnate. Carlisle then ran and still runs the St. Regis Paper Co., which happened...
...March 28, 1938 the Supreme Court settled matters by ruling the Holding Company Act valid. The first price of compliance with the Act was the resignation of Banker Whitney, two other friendly banker directors. But Niagara Hudson's Floyd Carlisle was re-elected to the United board-as the representative of "a large investing interest." United announced it would register as a holding company...
...opportunity permits, to diversify its portfolio and participate in the financing and underwriting of new capital issues in the public utility and other fields." As a first step United asked permission to invest $8,000,000 of its $12,400,000 of cash in industrial common stocks. Last March SEC gave consent; last week United showed that it had begun...