Word: reopens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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However, when Mr. Cooper went around to the Clearing House Association the following March to ask for $200,000 to enable the sapped Harriman bank to reopen after the 1933 bank holiday, he found the atmosphere distinctly chilly. Mortimer Norton Buckner, then president of the Clearing House Association and chairman of New York Trust, one of the eleven banks to settle, testified last week that most of the members were willing to contribute their share of the $6,300,000 actually needed to make up the Harriman losses, but that two banks, Guaranty Trust and Bankers' Trust, broke...
...League of Nations, while on the surface seeming like an about-face and an admission of defeat, will in effect also create a highly dangerous situation. Germany must not be allowed to rejoin the League. Her only excuse for doing so has been frankly stated:-she wants to reopen the question of colonies, and discard the Versailles treaty in its entirely. Neither of these moves can possibly be countered at the present moment and as one correspondent stated in a despatch, her re-entrance would have the effect of admitting a wolf into a pack of sheep. The League...
...formerly been fanatically and uncompromisingly anti-German. M. Taittinger's speech was carefully worded and devoid of the unbalanced reasoning that has frequently figured in many of the Chamber's debates. It came at a particularly opportune time in view of the fact that efforts are being made to reopen conversations with Germany about rejoining the League of Nations. The favorable comments from the German Foreign Office through the Berliner Tageblatt on the following day proved that M. Taittinger bad made a wise move...
...dared tell. Hoffman's duty is unmistakable. In the face of such universal uncertainty he has but one course;-to return Condon to the United States and air the case from top to bottom before a possibly innocent man be allowed to die in the chair. Far better to reopen this question, unpleasant as it may be, than to choose blindly some scapegoat to satisfy the demands of justice...
...fighting spirit of peace lovers is in for still more rousing during the coming session. The Senate Munitions Investigation Committee planned to reopen hearings, summon J. P. Morgan & friends, try to prove that the bankers drove the U. S. into the last war, try to dig up enough headline scandals to win committee members headline credit with headline-reading voters...