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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House of Morgan was not merely an Allied fiscal agent. Its partners, notably J. P. Morgan himself, the late Henry P. Davison and Thomas W. Lamont believed, long before the public did, that a defeat for the Allies would have been defeat for the U. S. (Said Partner Davison later: "Some of us in America realized that this was our war from the start") and bent their energies to help. When Allied purchasing agents in the U. S. began fruitlessly bidding against one another, the Morgans became central purchasing agent to the Allies, and Morgan Partner Edward R. Stettinius (whose...
Born. To Crown Princess Juliana of The Netherlands, 30, and Prince Bernhard, 28, a daughter; in Amsterdam (see p...
Died. Charles Steele, 82, lawyer, unobtrusive partner (since 1900) in the banking firm J. P. Morgan & Co. ; after a long illness; in Westbury, L. I. A quiet philanthropist, he gave $500,000 to Manhattan's St. Thomas Church for its choir school...
...company announced suspensions of service, shortly went into receivership. When ten surviving fly boats, including gangplanks, copper megaphones, pontoons and the skippers' hats were sold at auction for a piddling 225,000 francs ($5,962), oldtimers thronged the shore, made sad sounds. Mused L'Oeuvre (see p. 38) quoting Poet-of-the-People Laurent Tailhade...
Last week the Milkman's Matinee was four years old and far & away the most successful of U. S. late-trick radio programs. Since most radio men believe that the hours after 11 p. m. are poor sales time, few U. S. stations run a 24-hour schedule. Of these few, WNEW, with its very good friend, the Milkman, has conclusively proved that the after-midnight audience are spenders. Last year 40,000 of them telegraphed requests, at a minimum of 20? a wire...