Word: michaels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...72nd birthday Charles Michael Schwab revealed that he was "lightening his load" by retiring as president of Manhattan's Whist Club and "only spending several hours a day" as board chairman of Bethlehem Steel. "But I'm not through playing bridge nor have I quit the Bethlehem Steel Co." said he. "I will always get a kick out of cards, and as for the Bethlehem Company-that is my monument...
...Board in trying to build up a businessman's counterattack against the Exchange Bill was the New York Curb, second largest exchange in the U. S. Able young President E. Burd Grubb, elected only last week, lost no time in emulating President Whitney's methods. President Michael J. O'Brien of the Chicago Stock Exchange, third largest in the U. S., did the same thing.* To businessmen throughout the land who thought that the proposed legislation was no concern of theirs, lawyers, brokers, bankers and dealers preached the same simple gospel: ''Read the bill! Read...
...revolution and had successfully beaten back the White Armies of Russian capitalism. Stalin, after maneuvering Trotsky out of office by the tactics of political bossism. still had to break the popularity which made "Trotsky" a name of power. Appointed Commissar of War was Trotsky's bitter foe, Comrade Michael Frunze. He "broke" every Trotskyist officer, but grew too powerful himself. His sudden death Stalin's enemies attribute universally to poison. Stalin's next move was to hand the Army, Navy and Air Force over to a man of whom the Soviet public had never heard...
...restaurants of Manhattan's East Side. He discovered that although he did not know how to pronounce their names customers would pay 10? to hear him try. Then, after a brief career delivering eggs, he went to high school. His teachers were not impressed with his Latin. So Michael Jeremiah Devlet went to work as an errand boy in a bond house. At 16 he was earning $14 a week; at 17, only $5. But he had become a runner. Four years later, when he was a successful bond trader, the biggest and best known government bond house...
...land bank and Home Owners Loan bonds, a third Southern municipals. One was to act as broker for the others. Reports on municipal bonds were to be furnished by a bureau known as the Municipal Yardstick. Over all was to preside The National Marketplace for Municipal Securities, Inc., with Michael Devlet as president. Its purpose : "To provide the paternal guardianship of ... Michael J. Devlet for deserving proteges...