Word: merchantable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Passed a resolution exempting Joseph P. Kennedy, newly appointed by President Roosevelt to head the U. S. Maritime Commission (TIME, March 22), from provisions of the Merchant Marine act of 1936 which would make him ineligible to serve on the Commission because he had a "substantial" financial interest in a shipping line within the three years preceding his appointment. Declared sarcastic Senator Frazier, North Dakota Republican, after reading a list of Appointee Kennedy's achievements from Who's Who: "In addition to all these very eminent and obvious qualifications, Mr. Kennedy also contributed $50,000 to the Democratic...
...good stunt gone sour, denied any actual prepayment to the diver, disavowed sponsorship of his plunge. Other newspapermen sympathized, because they knew who it was that had jumped, and why. He was Ray Wood, a professional diver from high bridges who had plunged safely from the 110-ft. Merchant's Bridge in St. Louis, twice from Steve Brodie's 165-ft. Brooklyn Bridge,* once from a 170-ft. Aurora Bridge over Lake Union at Seattle. Going off the 185-ft. San Francisco-Oakland Bridge was Wood's 185th high bridge dive. Had it been successful he hoped...
...gave an artificial boom to U. S. shipyards, and at 29 Joe Kennedy became boss of Bethlehem Steel's Fore River Shipbuilding Corp. After the War, as the U. S. merchant marine began to go under for the second time, Joe Kennedy cut loose to make millions on Wall Street and Broadway. In 1935, when President Roosevelt asked Congress to revive U. S shipping, Joe Kennedy was the nationally acclaimed chairman of the Securities & Exchange Commission, the New Deal's most successful reform to date. Last summer Congress passed the Ship Subsidy Act, authorizing a five-man Maritime...
...Babson came honestly by his combination of Yankee piety and Yankee shrewdness. Born in Gloucester, Mass. where his father was a merchant, Roger Babson has probably made more money out of statistics than anyone in the U. S. One of the chapters in his autobiography is headed, "$1,200 Becomes Millions." As a youth, he relates, he "always liked bright, jolly girls, full of the dickens." But he kept his eye on the main chance, and after a disillusioning turn in investment banking, followed by a bad case of tuberculosis, he set himself up in Wellesley Hills, Mass...
...puzzled expressions of the two it was clear that the location of some back street was uncertain in their minds. As we passed beneath the symbol of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts a fragment of the conversation slipped between the horns of the traffic jam. The officer and not the merchant was the questioner...