Word: membered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next he took as his aide Honey Fitz's secretary, Edward Moore. Eddie Moore, Irish as a clay pipe, was the first member of the family Kennedy founded, nurse, comforter, friend, stooge, package-bearer, adviser, who played games with Joe and the children, bought neckties and bonds for Joe, opened doors, wrote letters, investigated investments, saw to it Joe wore his rubbers...
...Brussels Hugh Gibson, who was Secretary of the Legation in Brussels in 1915, allowed Producer Wilcox to show him vainly pleading for Edith Cavell with the German authorities on behalf of his ailing chief, Minister Brand Whitlock. In one instance Producer Wilcox rejected history as too melodramatic. One member of the Cavell firing squad, a private named Rammler, refused to carry out his command, followed Nurse Cavell before his comrades' guns. In the picture Edith Cavell dies alone...
This time the chief guardian of U. S. markets was George L. Harrison, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. To aid him he had a crisis committee of nine, and after a fashion history repeated itself: as a member of the committee (as a representative of investment bankers) sat J. P. Morgan's son, slickhaired, tightlipped, amiable Henry Sturgis Morgan (aged 38) of Morgan Stanley...
...immediate crisis that Mr. Harrison and his committee had to face was not in stocks but in U. S. Government bonds. Inflation-minded investors who wished to shift to stocks unloaded Governments. Both for the sake of the Treasury and of U. S. member banks, 70% of whose investments are in direct and guaranteed Government obligations, the market could not be allowed to slide...
...Federal Reserve announced that it would lend on Governments at par, not only to member banks but to any U. S. bank, at the member bank rate (1% in New York, 1% elsewhere). Meantime, the Federal Reserve bought Governments on the New York Stock Exchange. It did such a rushing business that the Exchange allowed trading in Governments to continue 25 minutes after closing time. For that day at least the bulk of trading in Governments returned from the over-the-counter market to the Exchange. Sales jumped in one day from...