Word: mr
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tongue-slip was double, for in the absence of Laborite Prime Minister MacDonald, Mr. Snowden was himself the acting Prime Minister. Said he with a wry grimace. "It will take a little time for us to recover from old habits...
...Baited to reveal what the Government had done, if anything, about unemployment was Minister of Unemployment J. H. ("Jim") Thomas, onetime engine cleaner, easy-going demagog. As he approached the House of Parliament Mr. Thomas was escorted by a man who had loaded himself with rusty iron chains and bore a placard: "I am unemployed...
Homes. Not counting the big white official house of Mr. & Mrs. Hoover, where she had slept, she wrote: "I have not had one glimpse of the inside of an American home. . . . All I have been able to see in New York, Washington. Philadelphia, Buffalo and Niagara Falls is the outside of homes. . . . What is the atmosphere of an American home? How do parents and children get on? What attitude has a boy on the fifth floor of an apartment building toward his small sister lying in her crib by the window? How much is the care of these children left...
...owned public utilities in Minnesota, South Dakota, Kansas, Nebraska, was making money. Eight years later his holdings were estimated at $10,000,000 and he sold to Eastern buyers. Immediately he started another chain of utilities which in 1927 was appraised at $25,000,000 and which again Mr. Foshay sold to the East. His last chain of public utilities, operated in twelve states and five countries (Canada, Nicaragua, Honduras, Mexico, U. S.), included as subsidiaries three Twin City banks, owned in 30 states, such industries as wholesale and retail drugs, hotel companies, textile and shoe factories, rubber plants, flourmills...
Interstate branch banking is not yet a fact. Many a U. S. citizen however believes that it soon will be. Of these none believes more devoutly than Mr. Amadeo Peter Giannini, president of Transamerica Corp. Ample proof of his belief came last week when he announced his intention of increasing the number of Transamerica stockholders from 135,000 to 500,000. One million shares were authorized. When or if interstate branch banking is allowed by Federal law Mr. Giannini will have paved the way for branch banks in many states by having stockholders in many states...