Word: richards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Robin Hood, handsome, romantic Actor Flynn performs for everybody else. A head-thumping, sword-swishing, bow-twanging technicolor attempt to foreshorten the popular episodes of the Soo-year-old saga into the perspective of a single connected story. Robin Hood 1938 makes the last of Richard I's crusading years its period, draws a bead on Regent Prince John's tax oppression that should bring a nod from every liberty-loving Britisher who can afford the admission price after his 27½% income tax is paid. In the course of his swashbuckling defense of human rights. Robin saves...
...Pressed its investigation of the Richard Whitney case as SEC called J. P. Morgan to the stand...
...perched on his lap, embarrassing the famed banker mightily but making the whole proceeding so ludicrous that public opinion swung to the Morgan side. Last week when Banker Morgan and his son, Junius Spencer Morgan, went to the SEC offices in Manhattan to tell what they knew of the Richard Whitney case, the only embarrassment was the blinding flicker of photographers' bulbs. Eyes closed in resignation, J. P. Morgan took the stand for half an hour. Respectfully treated by SEC Lawyer Gerhard Gesell and evidently serene as to his position, Banker Morgan spoke with such aplomb that he even...
...know Richard Whitney...
Next day SEC finally found someone who had thought it best to warn the Exchange of Richard Whitney's condition- none other than his lawyer, Randolph Mason. Fortified with written permission from Richard Whitney in Sing Sing to divulge anything relating to the case, Lawyer Mason said he had asked Stock Exchange Governor E. H. H. Simmons on February 16 for an immediate audit of Richard Whitney & Co. "I said to Mr. Simmons that I was very much concerned about Dick Whitney; that I did not know whether he was solvent or insolvent, but I felt there was very...