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That was too heretical for even old Professor Fisher, who is a stanch advocate of the commodity ("rubber") dollar. To please his patron, Yaleman Garland revalued the patent at $5,000,000. Automatic Signal prospered modestly, is still a going concern. Still board chairman is spare, white-goateed Professor Irving Fisher. Yaleman Garland withdrew into the mysteries of his 30 new corporations...
...decades before Prohibition, those lifelong teetotalers John D. Rockefeller Jr. and his father gave the Anti-Saloon League their stanch moral support and $350,323.67. When he declared for Repeal in 1932, Mr. Rockefeller by no means meant that he was quitting his long war on liquor. Having despaired at last of temperance by statute, he set his agents searching the world for other methods of attack. To Russia he sent his old friend Everett Colby, a suave, engaging onetime New Jersey State Legislator and Republican National Committeeman, who captained Brown's football team when Mr. Rockefeller...
Advertiser Chandler, a pious, scholarly young Manhattan lawyer and gentleman , farmer, was simply following the lead of his cousin. Representative James W. Wadsworth Jr., stanch Old Guardsman, who had already threatened to grow & sell illegal potatoes on his own ancestral acres in the Genesee Valley. Well did Republican Wadsworth know that New Dealers had had no hand in attaching the drastic, punitive Potato Control Act of 1935 as a rider to the AAAmendments (TIME, Sept. 9). But he also knew that the Act was a natural evolution of their crop restriction program, that whatever indignation could be stirred up against...
...chamber were not the only sad incidents in Mexico last week. As secretly as possible trainloads of Federal troops were hustled north to Sonora. Rumors persisted along the border that seven separate rebel armies were drilling in the dusty mountains, preparing to overthrow Governor Ramon Ramos, a stanch Calles adherent...
...future of the whole U. S. Rival firms which have been industriously collecting business scattered by New Deal legislation were not so pleased, and stock in First Boston Corp., currently the leading U. S. investment bankers, dropped $4 per share on the announcement. But the stanch and stolid New York Herald Tribune burgeoned with a lead editorial, rumbling heartily: "Few more pleasing news items have come out of Wall Street in recent years than this . . . announcement that the long and honorable tradition of the House of Morgan in the field of investment banking is to be perpetuated through...