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...Richard Whitney* of the New York Stock Exchange, Vice President Charles G. Taylor Jr. of Metropolitan Life (world's biggest), President Henry Bruere of Bowery Savings Bank (world's biggest), Joseph P. Day, if not the world's biggest, easily the world's most famed realtor, and many another tycoon of finance were to be found in the aldermanic chamber of Manhattan's City Hall. They were there to testify, not under subpoena, but on their own initiative-to argue with Samuel Untermyer, baiter of stock exchanges and great corporations. Mr. Untermyer had them...
...Hyde Park vacation over, President Roosevelt cruised down the Hudson as the guest of Vincent Astor, realtor, banker, backer of the forthcoming weekly Today (see p. 24). With them were half a dozen non-political friends-the same group that fished together off Florida last February just before Chicago's Mayor Cermak was assassinated at Miami. Above the Nourmahal floated the Presidential flag-four white stars on a blue field. President Roosevelt thought it was the first time in U. S. history that that emblem had been used on a private yacht. Heeling the Nourmahal were two naval watchdogs...
...board was the election of a chairman, a post vacant since March 4 when bald, bumbling Atlee Pomerene, Hoover appointee, was forced out by the Senate's refusal to confirm his nomination. Together went the Woodin, Couch and McCarthy heads. When they came apart Jesse Jones, Houston publisher, realtor, banker, lumberman and promoter, found himself unanimously elected R. F. C. chairman. Chairman Jones has been on the R. F. C. board since its inception (February 1932), has acted as chairman in rotation with the other three active members for two months. He has seen R. F. C. loan resources...
Last week for the first time in 24 years, St. Louisans elected a Democratic Mayor. Victorious candidate was Bernard Francis Dickmann, 44, bachelor realtor. A grey-haired, ruddy-faced, wisecracking good-timer. Mayor-elect Dickmann is president of the City Real Estate Exchange. A party worker for 20 years, he had never before run for office...
Died, Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, 71, sister of the late President, mother of onetime (1924-29) Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Douglas Robinson, relict of Manhattan Realtor Douglas Robinson; of pleural pneumonia; in Manhattan. Poetess (The Call of Brotherhood, Out of Nymph), politician, in the 1932 campaign she supported local Republican candidates but not President Hoover because "my own beloved niece is the wife of the Democratic candidate...