Word: schley
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wilson men of Georgia, ran the state campaign of that year. In the White House, Woodrow Wilson made him Director of the Census Bureau, later put him on the Federal Trade Commission, of which he became chairman. In 1918 Senator Tom Hardwick was up for reelection, opposed by Bill Schley. The campaign was getting hot when Harris appeared with a letter of endorsement from Wilson. Harris won, was re-elected in 1924 (unopposed), will run again next year. A large portrait of Woodrow Wilson hangs in his office...
Hatless, breathless, he rushed to the cable office and signaled the world that the Spanish battle fleet of Admiral Cervera, long sought, imminently expected by nervous mamas at U. S. bathing beaches, had been found. The Spanish gunboats coaled and departed to face U. S. Admiral Schley. U. S. citizens looked for Curaçao in their atlases, found it off the coast of Venezuela, a tiny button in the bottom of the Caribbean...
...Anthony '31 Touisset, Mass. 165 6.01 18 No. 6 J. T. Adams '31 Lawrence, L. L. 186 6.01 20 No. 5 C. W. Goodyear '31 Buffalo, N. Y. 176 6.03 20 No. 4 L. S. Goodbody '31 Toledo, O. 183 6.01 20 No. 3 R. Schley '31 Far Hills, N. J. 175 6.01 19 No. 2 J. R. Hunt '31 New York 176 6.01 19 Bow J. Holbrook '31 New York 168 5.11 19 Cox., W. S. Gillespie '31 Stanford, Conn...
Four Soviet trading organizations and two mixed companies carry on virtually all trade between private U. S. interests and the Soviet foreign trade monopoly. Concerning these activities Mr. Reeve Schley, a vice-president of the Chase National Bank of Manhattan, is quoted: "The Chase National Bank has been doing business with Russian organizations here and in Russia for the past two years (1924 to date). . . . Our experience during this period has been entirely satisfactory...
...Russia the news of the luncheon was construed in the Soviet press to constitute "the first outspoken recognition by American finance and industry of the importance of Soviet trade and the stability of the Soviet government." When New York reporters waylaid poor Mr. Schley and cross-examined him as to the accuracy of this pronouncement, he ascribed the luncheon to social motives. He in fact owed the Soviets a luncheon, since last summer they entertained him in Russia...