Word: meyer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hoover last week had at the White House four important Manhattan bankers: President William C. Potter of Guaranty Trust Co., President Charles Simonton McCain and Vice President James T. Lee of Chase National Bank, President George Willets Davison of Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. Also present was Governor Eugene Meyer of the Federal Reserve Board. They conferred on "the general business situation." Two reports immediately developed: 1) the President was planning more banking aid to Europe; 2) he was arranging to protect mortgage issues from speculative manipulation...
...every element of the production, refining and distribution of a complete line of petroleum products, but, as if arranged by nature, the field of action of the two companies is surprisingly complementary." Oldest of the top executives is the new chairman of the Executive Committee, grizzle-bearded Charles F. Meyer, who climbed from the Indian service of the old Standard to the presidency of Standard of New York. Board Chairman of Socony-Vacuum is Herbert Lee Pratt, longtime chairman of the Socony Board and son of one of the elder Rockefeller's most potent partners...
...delay in acting on their petition might do the carriers great financial damage. Grenville Clark, attorney for banks and insurance companies with heavy rail investments, heatedly suggested that Commissioners postpone their summer vacations to the autumn so the rate case could be more quickly disposed of. Shortly retorted Commissioner Meyer, presiding at the hearing: "If anyone thinks the question of vacations enters into the Commission's consideration of this case, he is very much mistaken." Shippers' representatives, on the other hand, insisted that they needed a month or more to prepare their arguments in opposition to rate upping...
...thermometer outside on Pennsylvania Ave. stood at 98°. Everyone was in his shirtsleeves and a frank sweat. The mahogany paint melted from the metal chairs, stained many a pair of linen trousers. On the dais which runs the width of the room sat I. C. Commissioner Balthasar Henry Meyer, presiding, flanked by Commissioners Ernest Irving Lewis and William Erwin Lee, assigned to the case. Commissioner Lee kept himself cool by waving a silk fan. Sitting in on the case unofficially was Commissioner Joseph Eastman, most liberal and conscientious member of the I. C. C. Present also by invitation were...
...felt that the I. C. C. should not interest itself too much in Industry's ability to pay a higher charge, as the roads would adjust that matter to meet individual conditions among shippers. Efforts to cross-examine Mr. Scandrett about wages were shut off by Commissioner Meyer on the ground that the Railway Labor Board and not the I. C. C. had jurisdiction on pay scales. Mr. Cole, representing all southern carriers, pleaded for swift action by the I. C. C., asked that no exceptions be made for certain commodities lest the hearings degenerate into "an ordinary rate...