Word: scotts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Amid the cheers of bankers and brokers, Harry Truman abruptly demoted Marriner Eccles from the chairmanship of the Federal Reserve Board last week. In the place of old New Dealer Eccles, the President put Thomas McCabe, chairman of the Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank, president of Scott Paper Co. (tissues). In politics, McCabe is a Republican...
...took Eccles' place was somewhere to the right of Eccles' "unorthodox" doctrines, though perhaps not as far as some loudly applauding bankers thought. Thomas McCabe went to progressive Swarthmore College. He began his career at Scott Paper Co., became a supersalesman and finally president. He has held various Washington jobs, including that of deputy lend-lease administrator. McCabe, like Eccles, is concerned about ways & means to curtail credit. He also believes that great efforts should be made to control inflation. The difference between the two may be largely one of method. Amiable, smiling Tom McCabe gets along with...
Boss Anastasio Somoza smelled trouble, and his Guardia National found more scents of it almost every day. At the home of an ex-hardware merchant named Luis H. Scott, enough dynamite was found to blow the Somoza government clean out of business. That, charged the Guardia, was exactly what Don Luis had planned to do with...
...Luis Scott was jailed, but he did not stay in jail long. One night he got out over the roof, scurried away through the jungle and took refuge in neighboring Guatemala. General Somoza had long suspected that the Guatemalans were encouraging Nicaraguan rebels, and last week he came right out and said...
...mothers of violin prodigies and child movie stars. They watch over their daughters like circling hawks, and fuss around them like anxious hens. This week, as usual, they will sit around hotel lobbies in St. Moritz, discussing other skating mothers who are out of earshot-and their daughters. Mrs. Scott is understandably possessive and protective of her daughter, but does her best to avoid the infighting among "skating mamas." She wants Barbara Ann to stay as she is: winning titles by trying harder and being more precise than her rivals. But it is Barbara Ann herself who seems to have...