Word: postes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week in Washington the Senate Judiciary Committee, after a month of intensive investigation of its subject, handed in a favorable report on the nomination of Mr. Jackson to the post of U. S. Solicitor General. Not in the least perturbed by the committee's minority view, that the characteristically Rooseveltian opinions Mr. Jackson has expressed in recent speeches and in Committee hearings made him unfit for the job, the Senate heard Nebraska's Norris say that he wished Mr. Jackson were being nominated for even higher office, shortly confirmed...
...rabidly pro-Roosevelt New York Post this voice was the "voice of liberalism; the platform is that of Coolidge." Actually it was the typical voice of the old-line Democrat, the Democrat who would like, but does not dare, to say the same things on the Senate floor. For the Baruch testimony was by no means a one-way damnation. Asked if he thought business had done its share, the white-haired old financier replied: "Business has not cleaned up its own stable, it has not met the Government people in the fullest spirit of co-operation." Eloquently he urged...
With the death of Robert Scripps-none of whose two girls and four boys (chief beneficiaries of E. W.'s trust) is old enough to rule-Roy Howard, diminutive, dandified and able, last week became the head of the empire he had helped develop. His post: chairman of a triumvirate of trustees of whom the other two will be hard-working Board Chairman William Waller Hawkins and George Bertram ("Deake") Parker, talented editor-in-chief of Scripps-Howard papers...
...earned his own living playing in dance bands, cafés and cinema orchestras. A diligent student, he spent his spare time plowing through courses at the Frankfurt Conservatory, studying violin, viola and composition. In 1915 he became head violinist of the Frankfurt Opera House, rose to the post of conductor. Among German composers his pre-Hitler reputation was second only to that of aging Richard Strauss...
...Richard Whitney was the Depression president of the Stock Exchange, is a brother of Morgan Partner George Whitney. Richard Whitney & Co. had always been known as "the Morgan brokers." It was in behalf of a Morgan banking group that Richard Whitney strode across the floor to U. S. Steel post on a dark day in 1929 to bid $2.05 per share for 25,000 shares of steel -15 points above the market. That spectacular bid temporarily stayed the avalanche and the tall figure of Richard Whitney became the hero of the crash...