Word: moneyman
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...tribute to President Angell's co-operative ability that most of the prominent men in the New Yale are legacies from the Hadley administration. President Angell's moneyman is canny, thin-lipped George Parmly Day, one-time Manhattan stockbroker, Treasurer of the University since 1910. He founded the University Press, sponsored the Yale Review and in 1927 set an all-time record for academic high finance by striking 22,000 graduates...
...secretary-mistress named Karen Andre (Doris Nolan) arrive in Manhattan where he sets her up in a penthouse. After the Crash he finds that he has only one asset left, his personable self, which he is willing to trade in marriage to the daughter of a big U. S. moneyman if her father will lend him $25,000,000. Not long after this alliance, a man's body with a bullet through it comes hurtling down from the Faulkner penthouse and Karen Andre is put on trial for Faulkner's murder. Was it murder? Was it suicide? Was the body...
...urge to sweat in convention assembled, most of the New Deal's onetime economists and a number of other experts gathered in Ithaca. N. Y. for a Cornell Monetary Conference. Much in evidence on his home ground was Professor George F. ("Rubber Dollar") Warren, the only moneyman who sold a major theory to President Roosevelt but who is no longer a frequent White House caller.* Also on hand was Professor Oliver Mitchell Wentworth Sprague, the Treasury's hard money adviser, who quit his post in 1933 as a protest against the prevailing Warren theories. Another was Professor James...
Meanwhile at Manhattan's Economic Club the night before the President's monetary policy and those who back it once more came under critical discussion. First speaker was Senator Elmer Thomas of Oklahoma. No. i Inflationist of Congress. Next House Speaker Rainey flayed Hard Moneyman Sprague for flouncing out of Washington as a presidential ad- viser. Frank Arthur Vanderlip, ex-banker and onetime enthusiast for Technocrat Howard Scott, burbled his delight at the President's monetary experiment. To answer them up rose the fourth and last speaker, James Paul Warburg. 37-year-old vice chairman...
...money power, especially in an argument which lists money against money. Ogden Livingston Mills and James Wolcott Wadsworth were moneymen, but they have departed from the House and Senate, respectively. Senator David Aiken Reed of Pennsylvania, Secretary Mellon's haggard, Princeton-educated protege, might stand as the senatorial moneyman. In the House are New York's Snell, a florid, solid cheesemaker; Rhode Island's Richard S. Aldrich, son of the late great Senator Nelson Aldrich; and Pennsylvania's Harry Estep, a young Mellonite member of the Ways & Means Committee...