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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three millions by his firm. As vice-president in charge of the New York Exchange in October, 1929, when securities were plunging down at the rate of ten points a day, Mr. Whitney temporarily halted the crash. Representing the hastily-formed pool of Morgan and other bankers to save the market, he bid high on 25,000 shares of Steel and saved the day, thus creating the "Black Thursday" legend. Later, as President of the Exchange, he was a truculent critic of the Administration, since he opposed federal regulation of security markets. To end the feud between Wall Street...
Although the precise subject of his speech is not known, Smith heads an organization known as the "Committee of 1,000,000," which is dedicated "To Save America! For God and Country!" according to advance publicity. One of its chief aims is "To instill a new spirit in American Youth, dedicated intellectually and physically to the maintenance of American institutions." But the program also "covers the entire sphere of our national life...
...frank examination of the profit system in the spring of 1933 showed it to be in collapse; but substantially everybody in the United States, in public office and out of public office, from the very rich to the very poor, was as determined as was my Administration to save...
...outcome of an air v. sea battle was by no means a foregone conclusion. The Navy's air chief quoted the British Imperial Defense Committee's retort to the theory that battleships are outmoded-if the theory proves well founded, a government that builds no battleships will save money; if ill founded, the government will lose an empire. Meanwhile, other Navy and War Department officials pointed out that the only warship ever sunk by planes was the Pantry, whose limited artillery prevented it from being a satisfactory experimental guinea pig; that if England, Italy and Japan knew battleships...
...colonels, devoted bodyguards, faithful wives, brave generals, beautiful horses, loyal troops, narrow escapes, magnificent scenery, bloody battles and hard riding. In it the smiling, courageous, gentle Colonel Nathaniel Franklin of the Sixth Pennsylvania Volunteers is forever leaping upon his high-spirited horse and thundering down the road-sometimes to save a Confederate lady in distress, sometimes to clean up a nest of irregulars, and sometimes, apparently, just for a little thundering...