Word: rolande
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York Stock Exchange, it never lost a case. Neither fact, however, moved the Stock Exchange's Acting President William McChesney Martin Jr. and the "Reform" party. Their new brooms are sweeping out the "Old Guards" of ex-President Charles R. Gay who were uncompromising toward SEC. Roland Redmond, senior Carter, Ledyard partner, was a great & good friend of Richard Whitney, an Old Guardsman who at present languishes in Sing Sing.* Last week, Mr. Martin & partisans made the sweep complete. In brief routine announcement that went almost unnoticed by the press they announced that the Exchange had a new tribe...
...poetry, Paul Hindemith's, Eric Satie's and Virgil Thomson's music, and lectures by Surrealists Andre Breton and Salvador Dali, Connoisseurs Thomas Dabney Mabry Jr. and Julien Levy from Columbia's Workshop to explain and illustrate surrealism. NBC counters an hour later with Roland Bradley's play about surrealism. (Sat. 8:30 p.m., Blue...
During their long survival into the modern world, the leaves of the ginkgo changed until they are now almost invariably two-lobed and kidney-shaped. In the Cretaceous period, 100,000,000 years ago, the leaves almost invariably were wedge-shaped. Last week the Smithsonian Institution announced that Dr. Roland W. Brown had discovered, in a park near the White House, a ginkgo with leaves of this Cretaceous type. "It can hardly be looked upon otherwise," said the Smithsonian, "than as an atavism or throwback over a vast expanse of time...
Lawyer Mason's next revelation put SEC itself on the spot. Telling of a conference with Roland Redmond, counsel for the Exchange, a few hours before Richard Whitney & Co. was suspended. Lawyer Mason said: "Redmond said that the attitude of the SEC was that this situation should not be allowed to break and that a Commissioner Hanes was here in New York with the idea that the SEC was ready to cooperate, with the idea of continuing the firm in business for some time, with the idea that some orderly liquidation could be effected...
...addition to these personalities, the Smoker Committee has engaged several outstanding acts, including The Three Whirlwinds, a roller-skating trio; Rose Roland, tap dancer recently featured at the Club Mayfair; juggler Raymond Pike; the Darling Siaters, singing trio; and the Blonde Tappers formerly at the Brown Derby. Al Zimmerman's orchestra will furnish the music...