Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...formation of an investment banking corporation by a group of prominent officials of international labor unions, in order to "mobilize labor's financial and credit power" was announced by Guy H. Oyster, former secretary to Samuel Gompers. The corporation will be known as the H. W. Morgan Co. and will maintain headquarters in Washington...
...death on March 24 of Senator Samuel D. Nicholson of Colorado deprives the Republicans of another vote in the next Senate. In the new Congress the Republicans had, until the death of Senator Nicholson, 53 Senators; the Democrats, 42; and the Fanner-Laborites, 1. Governor Sweet of Colorado, who must appoint a successor to Senator Nicholson, is a Democrat sponsored by the Nonpartisan League. Senators Ladd, Frazier, Shipstead, Wheeler, Howell, Brookhart and La Follette were also sponsored by the League. Consequently it is expected that a radical Democrat will be appointed to the vacancy caused by Senator Nicholson...
...Samuel Hoare, Air Secretary, created considerable excitement when he spoke of French air supremacy in presenting his estimates in the House of Commons...
...Samuel M. Vauclain, President of the Baldwin Locomotive Works: " In a speech to the British Empire Chamber of Commerce (in Manhattan), I stated that unless English business men attained the American ideal of price, quality and service, I would continue to favor a tariff wall so high that the sun would not shine in New York until 10 o'clock in the morning...
...Died: Samuel D. Nicholson, junior United States senator from Colorado, of cancer of the liver, at Denver. (See Page...