Word: outspokenness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...banking blast against Washington came from Rochester instead of from Boston. Apparently to avoid implicating the A. B. A., Banker Winthrop W. Aid-rich, chairman of New York's Chase National Bank, chose a luncheon meeting of the Rochester Chamber of Commerce as a rostrum for the most outspoken if not the most original attack upon the New Deal since the current market crash began. In a concise analysis of the situation which warmed the hearts of Wall Street, Banker Aldrich repeated and amplified the assertions made by President Gay of the New York Stock Exchange two months...
Most dangerous element in Europe today--in the world today, he feels, is Italy's outspoken ambitions in the Mediterranean. There "British and French possessions are so important that they could ill afford, in the long run, to allow Mussolini to realize his aspiration...
High Words. Chairman Tom Girdler of Republic recently obtained a vote of confidence from his industry when he was elected head of the Iron & Steel Institute instead of William A. Irvin of U. S. Steel (which signed a contract with S.W.O.C. without a fight). Ever an outspoken man, Tom Girdler expressed himself freely on the situation last week. He insisted that 21,000 of his 50,000 workers were still on the job, that his mills were shipping 8,000 tons of steel daily. Reporters asked about a suit started by Stockholder Robert W. Northrup of Toledo, who complained that...
...said: "We are only one company, and we don't wish to monopolize this gentleman's time. Why don't you go to another company and ask them to show you their mines?" Impeding his investigation of sharecroppers were the wary answers to his questions, the outspoken disapproval of the vigilantes (voiced by shooting at him and his companions of the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union), his own gooseflesh-reaction to the incredible poverty of sharecroppers' homes...
...Cleveland Indians baseball club, Charles Bradley was heir to a vast real-estate and Great Lakes shipping fortune. As a banker he early became associated with the Van Sweringens in real-estate, later in rail roads. When the Vans started building Cleveland's Terminals Building in 1927, blunt, outspoken Mr. Bradley was asked to supervise activities. He moved his office from the Union Trust Co. to the site of the excavation. Asked by newshawks what his plans were, Charles Bradley replied: "First thing we'll do is raise hell." The building was completed in record time. Last week...