Word: portfolios
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cabinet was quickly formed containing representatives of nearly every party except Royalists, orthodox Socialists and Communists. Much was made of the fact that, including "Gastounet," who served as Premier once before in 1913-14, six onetime Premiers were in it: Edouard Herriot, now Minister of State without portfolio; André Tardieu, also a Minister of State; Pierre Laval, now Minister of Colonies; Albert Sarraut, now Minister of the Interior; Louis Barthou, now Minister of Foreign Affairs. Republican idealists were more concerned over the fact that for the first time since the founding of the Third Republic the Cabinet contained...
...banking system whose deposits could be guaranteed. Thus in use the RFC became the financial heart of a vast experiment in State Capitalism. Colossus. As controller of a prodigious one-man corporation, silvery-haired Jesse Jones has in his potential portfolio $394.000,000 worth of holdings in 67 railroads -enough to make Messrs. Gould and Harriman turn enviously in their graves. In three months he has bought at prices he himself increased from week to week $100,000,000 of gold. He has more bank stock than any man in the history of the world-$475,000,000 worth...
Almost lost among the horde of New- Dealers who overrun Washington is a retired Manhattan lawyer named Edward Bruce. He holds no important portfolio, has no mouth-filling title, draws no fancy salary. Yet he works well and hard for his friend in the White House by giving special advice to the State and Treasury Departments. As an expert on silver, he accompanied the U. S. delegation to the ill-starred London Economic Conference last June...
...Portfolio held by same man in the Daladier Cabinet...
Matthew B. Brady, the distinguished photographer of the Civil War period, is the subject of a curious psychograph by the prolific Charles Flato. More arresting than the psychograph itself is a series of admirable, prints from Brady's portfolio; one of them, a study of General Burnside standing by his camp tent, gives a convincing argument for Daguerre's metallic art as an instrument of high irony. Brady is far less self conscious as an artist than the usual photographic contributors to this magazine, and the clearness of his tones, achieved without the sacrifice of beauty, is surprising...