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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the embargo on dollars was lifted. The U. S. had apparently moved. In Washington it was reported that the U. S. and Argentina were negotiating a reciprocal agreement on foreign exchange. And Warren Lee Pierson, president of the United States Export-Import Bank, was in Buenos Aires. Mr. Pierson's bank last week received $500,000,000 additional lending capital when President Roosevelt signed a bill designed to enable South American countries to build up their own industries, including armaments for hemisphere defense. When it's raining dollars, any banker, even an aristocrat like Pinedo, instinctively...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Wooing the Argentine | 10/7/1940 | See Source »

Saturday the Merrymen go to Derby where they will oppose a Pierson College eight

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ELIOT EIGHTS SWEEP RIVER IN DOUBLES | 5/23/1940 | See Source »

...Gallup polls. Some finds: > A student, driving back to college after a date in Poughkeepsie, N. Y., tuned in just in time to hear a bulletin that something from out of this world had landed at Grovers Mills, near Princeton. He listened long enough to hear "Professor Pierson of Princeton" (Welles), and talk of invasion, gas, fire, and many deaths. Believing that everybody was done in down Princeton way, he headed back to rescue his girl, covered 45 miles in 35 minutes, passed through Newburgh, N. Y. (pop. 31,000) without noticing it. Analyzing this young man's questionnaire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Anatomy of a Panic | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

...introduced in the first act: music by Pete Rollins and words by Bayard Clark. With proper handling, this song should easily reach high national popularity ratings. The other outstanding Rollins songs were "I Want to Be Investigated," "Un Chico Vico," and "Lonely Moon." Besides Bacon, Franklyn Tyler, Gardner Pierson, and Bayard Clark are especially good in their parts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 3/27/1940 | See Source »

Playing some of the leads are: Robert Bacon '42, Bayard Clark '40, Gardner H. Pierson '42, and George L. Blackman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "ASSORTED NUTS" TITLE OF NEW PUDDING SHOW | 3/20/1940 | See Source »

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