Word: mutuals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...French note delivered next day at the State Department suavely echoed the request "that an extension of the suspension of payments may be granted in order that the study of the present serious problems now under discussion may be continued and completed in the necessary atmosphere of mutual trust." In substance Britain and France wanted two things from the U. S.: 1) a conference to reduce their debts: 2} an-other moratorium pending such reduction...
...That all European states sign a round-robin pact of non-aggression and of mutual armed assistance against a pact-breaking aggressor...
...seems inevitable that Calvin Coolidge must some day become president of a great life insurance company. For four months it looked as if the company would be Northwestern Mutual, whose trustees began trying in June to agree on a successor to the late President William Duncan Van Dyke, who died June 7. Last week with a message in his hand a trustee left the board room on the fifth floor of Northwestern's marble headquarters in Milwaukee. Instead of going out to a telegraph office he walked down a single flight of broad stairs, down a long corridor...
Northwestern Mutual was founded by a rawboned old adventurer who never became its president. In Catskill, N. Y., in the 1840's lived a maker of invalid chairs who called himself General John C. Johnston. Soon after Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York was organized he got a job with it, placed his chair near the office door, never let a prospect by. In 1857 he gathered together the 36 trustees required to start a life insurance company in Wisconsin. By the time he had collected the $200,000 needed to begin operations the trustees had decided they...
...choicest vintage." There on the Delta the Freshmen and Sophomores held their annual football game, with the upper classes ranged on the stone posts and square-sharp rails of the fence, lightly chatting with demure sisters and belles from Boston as they watched the combatants work out a mutual destiny. But the desecration that is progress overtook the spot, and the Memorial was erected "in honor of those sons of Harvard who served in defence of the Union, more especially to commemorate the sacrifice of those who had laid down their lives in that cause...