Word: mcgarrah
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...factual part of the test proved quite difficult, the identification questions causing more trouble than usual. Such, names as Gates W. McGarrah, Amy Johnson, and "Enterprise", were wrongly identified by a majority of the contestants. In the second and more important section of the quiz, short essays between 250 and 600 words in length, the Wickersham Report, the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the Conflict between Mr. Hoover and Congress were the most popular of the subjects offered. In commenting on the contest, Mr. Wright said that the papers were of an unusually high standard and displayed evidence of intensive...
...Came too the man who is reorganizing the French sugar industry, M. Edmond Sommier of the refineries that bear his name. Also M. Eugene Schneider whose big and little guns are so esteemed. Down sat all to fork and sip with such equals as Manhattan's Gates W. McGarrah, now president of Europe's B. I. S. (Bank for International Settlements) and Mr. John Ridgely Carter, a partner of J. P. Morgan & Co.'s Paris house...
...should hope for a breadth of view and a sympathy of understanding, in dealing with problems of this kind, greater than an individual has any right to expect from his own creditor. He, I found, is very hardhearted. Let America not be so.''* Gold and Gates McGarrah. Also in Manhattan last week was famed Gates W. McGarrah, president of the B. I. S. (Bank for International Settlements) at Basle, Switzerland, which has replaced the defunct office for reparation payments in Berlin (TIME, Sept. 23, et seq.). Switzerland has worked wonders with Tycoon McGarrah. When he reluctantly resigned...
...banking group's commission be fixed at a higher rate than that given to others, by reason of the U. S. marketing system. Not until 12:30 a. m. (Wednesday morning) were these motions approved, the six necessary documents signed, the meeting adjourned by Chairman Gates W. McGarrah, president...
President and Board Chairman Gates Wr. McGarrah; $50,000 (as president of New York's Federal Reserve Bank, his last job, he also received...