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Died. Mrs. Zoe Dana Underbill, 87, daughter of the late, great Charles Anderson Dana, onetime owner & editor of the New York Sun. Born on Brook Farm. Mass., in whose famed Socialist-Utopian experiment her father was a prime mover, she was its last surviving member...
...Government or private corporations could distribute power the more cheaply. So the Tennessee Valley became a social and economic laboratory but power is still the big point of the Tennessee Valley Authority. In charge of all TVA's power activities and, though not its chairman, admittedly its prime-mover is David Eli Lilienthal. Short, baldish and a bear for work. Dave Lilienthal like a number of other New Dealers is young (35), Jewish and a Harvard Law School graduate who was fired with his zest for public wealing by Felix Frankfurter. For years he has been battling the ogre...
...that time there had been no bank in New York. Until three years before when Bank of North America (now part of The Pennsylvania Co. for Insurance of Lives & Granting Annuities) was found ed in Philadelphia there had been no bank in all the 13 colonies. Prime mover behind the new bank was a brilliant young bastard from the West Indies named Alexander Hamilton. Banks were new even in Europe but this 27-year-old veteran of the Revolution knew all the banking there was to know. It took a pocket full of depreciated paper money to buy a twist...
...economic end and not a means. Creditor nations can now no longer imagine themselves paid for past deprivation when they inter in their vaults what they once believed to be an economic absolute. Professors Warren and Rogers may still erroneously regard the gold price of dollars as a prime mover of domestic prices, they may still overestimates the economic importance of foreign trade to the United States; but they can never again speak consistently of a "favorable" trade balance as such, and they can always, in the future, stay at least one move ahead of the people...
...debarka tion fees paid by U. S. tourists, began to carve out a real harbor with an inside breakwater and two deep-water piers. It raised a huge $2,500,000 Gothic passenger terminal topped by a tower bearing the arms of the City of New York. Prime mover was Cherbourg Chamber of Commerce President Camille Quoniam, who has long worked to popularize the works of U. S. Philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson in France. Last week Cherbourg's new roadstead covered 3,500 acres of 42 to 46 ft. water. It was already fit to dock most transatlantic liners...