Word: portfolios
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long job of rehabilitating Middle West, the old creditors put into the presidency long-headed Daniel Crandall Green, able, onetime vice president of Electric Bond & Share. The principal banks in whose portfolio Samuel Insull's empire had ended were Manhattan Bankers Trust with 568,000 shares (18%), and two Chicago banks, First National with 14% and Continental Illinois National Bank with 14%. The RFC had taken over the 5% holdings of Central Republic Trust...
...skilfully shows his snow in three varieties: 1) wet, soft and falling; 2) powdery, windblown; 3) frozen. Like all good etchers Artist Young was able to make pleasing esthetic capital of his bare, black trees, winterset in the tranquil snowscapes. Contrasted were plates from the conventional etcher's portfolio of boats, birds, shorelines, woodland vistas...
...Socialists had helped to vote out of the Premiership in 1932 because he wanted to pay the War Debt to the U. S. M. Blum is not likely to become his own Foreign Minister as he believes the Premier should hold no Cabinet portfolio. Meantime M. Blum was busy promulgating the means by which he expects to guarantee France peace & power in Europe: a six-sided mutual assistance treaty between France, Britain, Russia, Rumania, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia, notably omitting Germany, Italy and Poland. Just how tough a job of statesmanship M. Blum had set himself was indicated last week...
...lecture educators on their trade. A Conservative with liberal tendencies, he is popular with Laborites. It was largely to calm the latter that Stanley Baldwin, swept into office with a Conservative majority last September, made Whiskery William de Percy's descendant a Minister without Portfolio, "to think out long term policies for the Government" at ?3,000 a year...
Twelve years ago a sandy-haired German with vast feet and an enormous nose shuffled into the Manhattan gallery of Erhard Weyhe. He was, he said, a baker by trade. His name was Emil Ganso and he had a portfolio of drawings to show. Dealer Weyhe did not think the pictures were good enough for an immediate exhibition. Nevertheless he signed Baker Ganso to a long contract, gave him a small weekly allowance on which to live while he went on painting. It was a shrewd investment. Proudly last week Dealer Weyhe gave his protégé an exhibition...