Word: mr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Asked, at his country home, by a telephone operator, Roy Barton White, president of Western Union Telegraph Co., personally undertook to deliver a Mother's Day telegram at a farm near Annandale, N. J. The farmer handed Mr. White...
Economist Hansen went on to point out that from 1922 to 1928 the U. S. population increased 9.1%; from 1930 to 1936 only 4.3%. Contracting with it, all private construction has fallen from a $9 billion annual business to $4 billions. If the New Deal chooses to take Mr. Hansen's tip, a drive for capital spending may take the form of housing...
...Mr. Chamberlain's Chancellor of the Exchequer and Inner Cabinet confidant, Sir John Simon, is cold and devious, a lawyer whose poker face and ambiguous, clausy rhetoric are well adapted to muddling through. Devious and poker-faced as ever last week, Sir John took steps definite enough to jolt the bowler-hatted businessmen of London's "City." He mobilized the Bank of England and the London Stock Exchange to impose "Simon's unofficial ban" on British buying of U. S. securities...
...Last week A. G. & E. Vice President Fred F. Burroughs appeared unhappily before SEC to explain. Fidgeting, he told SEC Lawyer Lewis Dabney that Ben Grey was a short man with a blond mustache whose job had been "to mix with the right people" in Washington. No, Mr. Burroughs stoutly declared, Ben Grey was not a lobbyist...
...What did he tell you about me?" asked Mr. Dabney...