Word: randolph
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Randolph Holles...
...interview in today's CRIMSON Mr. Randolph Walker of New York expounds his plan for reemployment, the so-called "Grub Stake Plan." His ideas would be worth considering if only because they advance a new solution of the problems which the depression has forced upon everyone; but further than this, they are interesting because they touch a subject which is at the bottom of every heart, because they involve the word, gold...
...special interview to the CRIMSON; Randolph Walker, widely known New York editor, outlined his "Grub Stake Plan" for National recovery and unemployment relief. Defining his position, he said: "I am going on the theory that America has solved the art or problem of distribution. The necessitates a medium of exchange of purchasing power placed in the hands of the buyer. The Grub Stake Plan," Mr. Walker went on, "is simply this: first, a grub stake...grub, a pick, a shovel and a pan... for prospectors and placer panners; then transport to placer regions, where it has already been shown that...
...calling cards, directed Presidential receptions, herded the Cabinet about, told distinguished visitors, where to stand, what to say. As guardian of the front door, he knew whom to let in, whom to keep out. He managed the White House weddings of Alice Lee Roosevelt to Nicholas Longworth, of Eleanor Randolph Wilson to William Gibbs McAdoo. President Wilson trusted him with the secrets of his romance with Mrs. Edith Boiling Gait, let him arrange their marriage. Tall, immaculate, dignified Chief Usher Hoover's manners were rated second only to those of Oliver Wendell Holmes...
Amadeo Peter Giannini, No. 1 U. S. branch-banker and John Francis Neylan, oldtime San Francisco newsman and now William Randolph Hearst's shrewd, hawk-nosed general counsel, were elected directors of Manhattan's National City Bank. Taking two of the three seats vacated by Charles Edwin Mitchell, Hugh Benton Baker and Percy Avery Rockefeller, Messrs. Giannini & Neylan will speak for National City's largest stockholder, Transamerica Corp., of which Mr. Giannini is the rambunctious chairman. Transamerica acquired its block of nearly 600,000 shares when it sold Manhattan's old Bank of America to National...