Word: mr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Keeping watch on bank accounting is the specific job of the U. S. Comptroller of the Currency. Until recently, comptroller was bubbling J. F. T. O'Connor, who resigned to run for Governor of California. Mr. O'Connor's successor is Preston Delano, and banking gossip for several weeks has held that there would soon be a tightening of Federal supervision over Banker Giannini's finances. That A. P. himself smelled a mouse became clear last month when he startled the American Bankers Association convention by announcing that he was "fed up with some...
...more conventional brethren in utilities the job of fighting the death sentence. Last week that fight was apparently over. Having battled unavailingly up to the Supreme Court, all the major utilities submitted plans for slicing themselves up in accord with the death sentence. For the occasion it pleased Mr. Hopson to take the limelight once more. Of all the 64 plans submitted to SEC, his was the only one completely revealed to the public...
With $900,000,000 worth of properties scattered from Staten Island to the Philippines and owned through a maze of 172 companies capped by Associated Gas & Electric, Mr. Hopson's problem was as tough as any. For all these 172 companies, the law allows Mr. Hopson only two corporate baskets, and all actual operating properties must be grouped in two geographic chunks...
...Mr. Groves was not slow in making his presence felt. He acquired a handful of broken-down investment trusts, put them together as Equity Corp. and sold them to Rockefeller Son-in-Law David M. Milton at a profit of $750,000, according...
...France, since Munich, wits have referred to Britain's Prime Minister as "J'aime Berlin." In Belgium, having seen that there was one article of worldly goods which Mr. Chamberlain never was without, not only wits but solid citizens began strolling into umbrella stores and asking for "um chamberlain...