Word: meyers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When politicians seek to legislate upwards and fix by law the prices of U. S. farm commodities, a man who wonders what price levels the politicians would recommend is Eugene Meyer Jr., the mentally mobile New York banker whom President Wilson called in in 1918 to direct War Finance Corp., whom President Harding called back in 1921, whom President Coolidge reappointed in 1925, and who last May was made chief of the reorganized Federal Farm Loan Bureau. In his inconspicuous office at Washington, he has received malcontents, and their political spokesmen, during three Administrations. His record of financial diplomacy...
...Meyer went to Manhattan to be a member of Standard Oil's foreign trade committee in 1907, to be vice president and director in 1920. But already, at the beginning of this century, Sir Henri had moved to his Royal Dutch headquarters in The Hague, and from there he directed the fight for customers...
...Shell" ships, tankers and auxiliaries, their number is vast, carry Royal Dutch-Shell oil to markets. Opposed to them President Meyer has his own "navy" of 38 ocean going tankers, 5 river steamers, 96 lighters and barges, 68 tugs and launches, and 134 junks...
Thus either Mr. Meyer, personifying his Standard Oil Co., or Sir Henri, personifying his Royal Dutch-Shell group, is like the dog of the fable, who with a good, juicy bone in his mouth walked onto a plank over a stream. In the water below he saw another dog with another bone, and he wanted the other bone...
...fabled dog opened his mouth to growl and thereupon dropped his own bone. And, although Sir Henri has been growling, (most indecorously for a British or a Dutch businessman), as if he were the dog on the bridge, he has not loosened his teeth from the Oriental markets. Mr. Meyer, like the dog in the stream, has made no sound in the controversy; nor has he loosened his teeth...