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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...once "in those mad years [1926-28]'' 15 U. S. bankers were in Belgrade. Jugoslavia, participating in "an undignified scramble'' for an issue. "There were times," he said, "when a dozen were in Central . . . and Latin American states outbidding each other in a foolish, reckless search for business." "Was your bank represented at Belgrade?" asked Senator Costigan. "It was not," snapped Partner Kahn. Asked to criticize unethical bankers, he philosophized, "Let him who is without sin first cast a stone...
...Never before was I so astonished in my life." he declared. "He said that I had presumed upon the affection of my colleagues, upon the esteem in which they held me. to insult them at my pleasure. I challenge any Senator here to search this Record in either house for 32 years to show where I ever initiated a dispute. I had the greatest esteem for the Senator from New Mexico. Why, I had so high a regard for his character and intelligence that I advocated his appointment to the President's Cabinet and urged him to accept...
...there, lean, white-chinned Feisal of Irak, come to watch proceedings, coach his delegates from the sidelines, and renew his acquaintance with two of Britain's most photographed beauties: Lady Louis Mountbatten and the Marchioness of Milford Haven, who visited his arid kingdom unescorted last November in search of desert thrills. Many a European Premier not present last week is expected to pay at least one visit. Tickets to view the august assemblage were rarer than rubies last week. The grey & green assembly hall is normally the central court of the Museum. Here 708 seats have been installed. Because...
...Roland for an Untermyer, or a Walsh or a Davis, Inquisitor Pecora did a much better job of establishing substantial information about private banking on which to base legislation. With time to search and prepare, he never dropped a question until he got his answer. Yet it was not Banker Morgan who supplied him with most of his facts but Partner George Whitney, tall, handsome, slick-haired brother of President Richard Whitney of the New York Stock Exchange. Mr. Whitney (known on Wall Street as "Icicle") gave the committee the impression that he knew more about the House of Morgan...
After President Edward Dickinson Duffield of Prudential Insurance Co. consented, as a loyal, energetic alumnus and trustee, to act as Princeton's president ad interim (TIME, May 30, 1932), the Princeton trustees continued to search the field and their feelings for a permanent successor to Dr. John Grier Hibben. Names mentioned ranged all the way from Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover down through a roster of eminent Princeton alumni to handsome young James Henderson Douglas, class of 1920, who made a name for himself as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury during the March banking crisis. When the trustees...