Word: snyder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...police guards who shook hands with Ike just before his departure. At week's end the President entered Walter Reed Hospital for his long-promised, long-scheduled physical checkup. Smiling broadly, he left Walter Reed 26 hours later, said he felt "fine, fine."* Reported Major General Howard Snyder, the President's physician: "Everything came out just as well as could be expected...
...month after his return to St. Louis, Martin was asked by War MobiMzation and Reconversion Chief John Snyder to join the Export-Import Bank as a director. Within a year Martin was appointed Ex-Im chairman (at $15,000), presided over the bank's expansion of capital to $3.5 billion. Determined not to allow the bank to become a handout window, Martin once refused to make a loan to China that had been requested by General George C. Marshall, then Secretary of State, insisted that he would never approve a loan unless it were economically sound. In 1948 Martin...
...been created as an independent agency to guard the nation's money, was clamoring to be unshackled from the Treasury, whose primary and distinct concern has always been to manage Government finances. By thus supporting the "easy money" policy of Harry Truman's Treasury Secretary, John Snyder, the Fed had, in fact, become an "engine of inflation...
...Nevertheless, in 1951, when he was first appointed FRB chairman by Harry Truman, succeeding Thomas (Scot-tissue) McCabe, who resigned in midterm, Martin had a hard time convincing fellow Democrats at Senate confirmation hearings that he would not allow the FRB to be dominated by his longtime friend John Snyder. Martin's clincher: "I'm not going to be a stooge for Snyder. I have too much respect...
...EMMA E. SNYDER San Diego...