Word: pollak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alexander H. Pollak '42, of Leverett House and New Rochelle, New York...
Meanwhile, in the absence of any more formalized official price policy, price theorists have been making a private Babel of the subject. Among them: Hugh Johnson, Dr. William Trufant Foster of the Pollak Foundation, Economist Frank Ashmore Pearson (of Cornell's once famed goldbug team of Warren and Pearson), Brookings Institution's Harold G. Moulton, Brookings' Charles O. Hardy, whose Wartime Control of Prices, written for the War Department, appeared last month...
Died. Walter H. Pollak, 53, lawyer who twice obtained review of the Scottsboro trials by the U. S. Supreme Court; of pneumonia; in Post Graduate Hospital, Manhattan...
Fortnight ago, they learned better. A loud second-class row developed between SEC and Co. Trustee Pollak. Co. is in reality just a set of books, hadn't had an employe for eight years until the Hopson crowd made Washington Lawyer Roger Whiteford its president during the system's last 100 days of freedom-and even he could not collect his salary from an empty till. Biggest joke about the reorganization has been that the trustees have talked and acted like big businessmen, while for months they too were unable to collect their salaries...
...started when Co. Trustee Pollak, down to his last corporate cup of coffee, attempted to sell securities to raise some money, and at the same time SEC got tired of muttering to itself: "When will he start to sue CORP.?" When lawyers for SEC, a party to the reorganization under the Bankruptcy Law, demanded that he use the money he proposed to raise to get on with his lawsuit, Pollak made headlines by echoing the cry of many a businessman: "SEC persecution...