Word: oren
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this juncture could scarcely have been improved upon by some playful New Deal imp. Instead of "liberal" Mr. Simpson they elected to Mr. Hilles' executive seat the apple-headed little gnome from Delaware, whom name-calling Harold Ickes calls "Proxy Dan, the Du Pont man"- ex-Senator Daniel Oren Hastings, than whom no man in Congress has a more reactionary record. As a sop to "liberals" they gave the one other executive vacancy to South Dakota's Harvey Jewett...
...Oren L. Kirklin...
When Senator Daniel Oren Hastings, Delaware Republican, stood up in the Senate last week and challenged "anybody" to say a good word for NRA, not a single Senator on either side of the aisle went to that organization's defense. Meanwhile courts in Missouri, New York and Wisconsin continued to pull more legal feathers from the Blue Eagle's already skimpy tail. In New Orleans Senator Borah's nephew, Judge Wayne Borah, refused to grant an injunction restraining a box company from alleged violation of the lumber code, pointedly added: "Personally, I believe the whole NIRA...
Resigned. Oren Root, 57, president of Hudson & Manhattan Railroad Co., owners and operators of the Hudson River tubes (Manhattan-New Jersey subway route), onetime motorman, conductor, inspector on the oldtime metropolitan street railway system of New York. During his eleven-year presidency, Hudson & Manhattan obligations rose in the market: 1st lien 5% bonds, from 57 to 99½; adjusted mortgage income 5% bonds from 16 to 83⅜; preferred and common stocks from almost no sale to 81 and 48⅝respectively. On the preferred stock, a dividend of 2½% semiannually was instituted. Reasons for resignation: "Entirely personal...