Word: randolph
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expenditures. He pointed out that the last Congress had been asked to spend seventeen billion dollars more than it did, largely by "group and sectional interests" and "organized minorities." Observers thought he had in mind such proposals as a $5,000,000,000 "Prosperity Loan," advocated by Publisher William Randolph Hearst and supported by Insurgent Senator Smith W. Brookhart of Iowa. Said the President: "Unless there is a general recognition that this is no time for such activities, these same pressures will again arise. It is important that
...Robert Isham Randolph, president of the Chicago Association of Commerce, chief of the city's "Secret Six" (antigang organization), told students & faculty of Northwestern University: "I Could have any man I designated killed for $200 or $300. I could have President Scott [Walter Dill Scott, president of Northwestern] put on the spot but it would probably cost a few hundred dol lars extra...
...collection of paintings and pen drawings by Randolph Caldecott will be on exhibition during this month in the Treasure Room of the Widener Library. Caldecott, an English illustrator of the nineteenth century, excelled in portraying English country life. The pen sketches are largely of hunting scenes, while the paintings are of a variety of subjects including pastoral scenes and some excellent portraits of dogs...
...plan was guarded and not plentiful. Many a businessman and educator was for it: President Silas Hardy Strawn of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, who said the Chamber would have a similar scheme to announce this week; President William Wallace Atterbury of Pennsylvania R. R.; President Robert Isham Randolph of the Chicago Association of Commerce; President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University; President Karl Taylor Compton of M. I. T. (of which President Swope is a graduate and trustee). An exception was Samuel Matthew Vauclain, board chairman of Baldwin Locomotive Works. "I don't care to comment...
When William Randolph Hearst needed money he offered stock to his employes and the public in a new $100,000,000 company called Hearst Consolidated Publications (TIME, June 30, 1930; Sept. 7). Last week Publisher Frank Ernest Gannett (Rochester Times-Union, Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Hartford Times and 14 other papers) announced he would offer $1,000,000 preferred stock in Gannett Co., Inc. But Publisher Gannett insisted that his company did not need money. Said he: "[The company] has never had a losing year. It was making money before the depression. It has been making money since the depression...