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...insurance assets and a sum equal to the national debt when President Roosevelt entered the White House. Nor is the job a mere matter of making the companies toe the strict line of New York State's insurance laws-as Superintendent George Slingerland Van Schaick (pronounced Skoik) found out. For also under his supervision were the big mortgage companies that cracked up after the 1933 Bank Moratorium with scandalous reverberations (TIME, Aug. 14, 1933). Having reorganized nearly one-fourth of the $800,000,000 guaranteed mortgages which his department had to take over. Superintendent Van Schaick retired...
Early in 1931 New York's Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt called up a lawyer friend in Rochester, told him he had a little work for him. The Governor wanted George Slingerland Van Schaick (pronounced Skoik) to be his insurance commissioner. Over a lengthy luncheon Lawyer Van Schaick protested that he had never held public office, that he knew nothing about insurance. Tut, tut, replied the Governor, there were plenty of insurance experts in the department. What Mr. Roosevelt wanted was an administrator. So at one of the most critical periods in insurance history George S. Van Schaick took over...
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...might do the same and announce a take line-up, but there is no reason to be ashamed of the CRIMSON line-up. It follows; c., Welton; 1b., Logan; 2b., Smith; 3b., Prait; s.s., Wilson; l.f., Slingerland; c.f., Gordon; r.f., Gerould; p., Hamblett...
...Second Shot," Mr. Gavit has painted a vivid war scene, a picture so realistic in its dialogue; so skillfully drawn, as to make the story perhaps the issue's best. Mr. Slingerland's "Fifty Below," except for a few spots of rather stilted conversation, is estimable. Interesting, but at times slightly artificial and overdone, is the third story of the number, Mr. Cutler's highly-colored "A Respectable Girl...