Word: owen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There seemed little enough for the greatest financier to go back to. "If our committee is not already dead," croaked a Japanese delegate, "it is certainly dying with despatch." Most observers concurred, but not indomitable Owen D. Young, chairman of the committee and co-representative of the U. S. with Mr. Morgan, who conferred as often as thrice a day with the "Iron Man" whom most people blame for disrupting the committee, Germany's hard, ungracious Dr. Hjalmar Schacht...
...TIME, April 22), compared to 6.1 to 1 for New York, it might appear that New York pays relatively low-even sweat shop-wages. But no doubt the fairer explanation is the generosity of General Electric to its workers, whose statistics were eloquent evidence of the Owen D. Young theory that a corporation's responsibility is about equally divided between capital, labor, public. The public's share includes, of course, great sums of money spent on research which is not currently productive. No such sums are spent, for example, in New York's cloak and suit hagglery...
...Matheson filed a protest with Congresswoman Ruth Bryan Owen who took up the matter with Rear-Admiral Frederick C. Billard, Coast Guard commandant at Washington. Wrote Admiral Billard to Tycoon Matheson: "As your launch was innocently engaged, I express regret . . . but . . . the Coast Guard personnel involved are not censurable in this incident...
...matters are not to be improved by saying to Germany, you are guilty. And the Allied representatives, under the leadership of Owen D. Young are pursuing the only salutary course for the good of the world in trying to meet Dr. Schacht, the German spokesman, half way. External war debts, on such a scale as at present, are a new phenomenon in international affairs. Their effect on the national economy is not well understood, and so long as the world sticks to its determination to see them paid, payment must proceed slowly and be safeguarded as far as possible...
Died. The Rt. Rev. Owen Bernard Corrigan, 80, Auxiliary Bishop of Baltimore, Vicar General of the archdiocese; in Baltimore...