Word: matthew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ROBBER BARONS-Matthew Josephson- Harcourt, Brace ($3). The roots of any family tree, of any aristocracy, are planted in the dirt. But the humble or scandalous beginnings of an old family, a settled society, are well covered. Not so the great names of U. S. plutocracy, whose mightiest growths are a matter of two or three generations, their naked progress still quite perceptible to the curious eye. And one by one these financial giants have had their share of homage and vituperation. Author Josephson comes neither to bury nor praise them; as observer of U. S. history, he thinks...
...might be excluded from a fashionable yacht club, but his son George was easily admitted. The profane and scornful old parvenu Cornelius Vander Bilt was unthinkable in a parlor: but his grandson William K. Vanderbilt would see all doors open to him in time," The Author. In 35 years, Matthew Josephson has done a variety of things. Brooklyn-born (1899), Columbia-educated, after a year as financial and literary editor of the Newark Ledger he joined the post-War literary exiles in Paris, wrote for transition, helped edit Broom. Two years on Wall Street as a customer...
Craig D. Woodruff, Jr. '35 is chairman of the Dance Committee. He is assisted by Matthew Cobb '35, William S. Fields '34, Robert H. Gallagher '34, and Kenneth W. Warren...
...endorsed the Goodwin Plan, the Christian Century got Dr. Ernest Fremont Tittle of Evanston and Dr. Ralph Washington Sockman of Manhattan, both famed Methodists, to recant. Not to be shamed out of their support for this temple & trade hookup, however, were Episcopal Bishops George Craig Stewart (Chicago) and James Matthew Maxon (Tennessee); Methodist Bishops Francis John McConnell (New York) and Ernest Lynn Waldorf (Chicago...
...Matthew Chauncey Brush, bushy-browed Wall Street trader and elephantophile, resigned as president and became chairman of American International Corp., his famed investment trust. Harry A. Arthur, first vice president, was promoted to the presidency. Recently ill, Trader Brush planned a prolonged vacation to recover his health...