Word: speyers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Museum of Berlin, the Musee Carnavalet of Paris,&3134; oldest of them all. la imitation of these, the Museum of the City of New York was organized in 1923 under the leadership of Harry Collins Brown, longtime editor of Valentine's Manual, with the enthusiastic support of Banker James Speyer, Supreme Court Justice Phoenix Ingraham. For several years it occupied the old wooden Gracie Mansion on the East River, between 88th & 89th Streets, onetime country place of Clipper Ship Owner Archibald Gracie. A modern fireproof building was imperative. The city donated land, a building fund was raised, an architectural competition...
...Banks Joseph Broderick, Governor George Leslie Harrison of the New York Federal Reserve Bank. Chairman Mortimer Norton Buckner of the New York Clearing House Committee and Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt of the State have talked long, often and seriously. The conversations have extended to 22 great banks, including Speyer & Co. and J. P. Morgan & Co. The conversations ended with promises of a million dollars from each bank and the choice of Mr. Gibson as the man to handle the money...
...white stone, stands at one side of University Platz, contains an elaborate "senate" room. It is the gift of 37 Americans in recognition of "Heidelberg's helpful service to our culture, science and civilization." Donors whose names were inscribed in a marble tablet included: John Davison Rockefeller Jr., James Speyer, Paul Moritz Warburg, William Averell Harriman, Walter Percy Chrysler, William Fox. The Lord Mayor of Heidelberg announced that the city council had voted to name one of the town's streets Schurmanstrasse. The Gold Honor Plaque of the City of Baden was bestowed on Mr. Schurman by officials of that...
...this coffee loan isn't to support a Brazilian monopoly!" ? that was what suave Mr. Speyer or somebody for him had to say to the State Department, convincingly. It was said ? convincingly. Last week Acting Secretary of State Joseph P. Cotton officially announced that the administration has no objection to the loan, believing that it will be used only for temporary support of the Brazilian hoard. which the hoarders promise to liquidate within ten years...
...Speyer's personal triumph seemed complete, but on the New York coffee exchange last week many a broker doubted that the loan would go through, "understood" that the Brazilian coffee situation is in such bad shape that J. Henry Schroder & Co. of London were beginning to wonder whether the coffee sword can be stayed, whether a coffee crisis and price slump are not inevitable...