Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most of last month Vincent Astor and Raymond Moley shuttled between Hyde Park and Manhattan. To the President, his richest friend and his ablest adviser brought word that Business was developing a bad case of nerves at the New Deal's uncertainties. Back in town Editor Moley wrote inspired reassurances in Today and Mr. Astor closeted himself with one tycoon after another to relate how things were going to come out all right in the end. The biggest news that Mr. Astor brought back from the throne room was that President Roosevelt was going to make Bernard Mannes ("Bernie...
...national industrial coordinator, to read such newspaper headlines as BARUCH RISES AGAIN AS FORCE IN U. S. AFFAIRS. "I like to think of myself," the smiling Jew once told a friend, "as the Disraeli of America." The Disraeli image broadened when President Roosevelt invited him up to Hyde Park the third day he was home. Last week, when his onetime lieutenant resigned from NRA, Wall Street was offering even money that Hugh Johnson's boss would be Hugh Johnson's successor. Recalled was this Baruchism: "I've been like a good athlete who is always ready...
...Boston Redskins, New England representatives in the National Professional Football League, will open their home season, Sunday, at Fenway Park, meeting the New York Giants led by Harry Newman, peerless passer of pro football...
These little engagements have brightened the lives of the jolly T-and-T boys since the first series, in 1636, when Harvard's earliest Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory won the opener by obtaining the right of park cow on the college grounds...
Back from Europe and ready to leave for Hyde Park, Bernard Mannes Baruch gazed out upon Manhattan, philosophized darkly: "They were all crazy and I think a lot of them still are. They have the same delusions they had in 1927 to 1929. They are striving to restore the same values that were in existence during those years, not realizing that such a thing is impossible. Do you see those buildings over there? They are the pyramids of today. Nobody knows exactly why the pyramids were built but they were used as tombs for ancient kings. Those pyramids of today...