Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Hoover took the first step toward organizing R. F. C. when he began to name its seven directors, four of whom must be Republicans, three Democrats. By law the Secretary or Undersecretary of the Treasury, the Governor of the Federal Re serve Board (Eugene Meyer) and the Farm Loan Commissioner (Paul Bestor) are R. F. C. directors, accounting for three of the four Republican places. About the White House last week it was generally assumed that two of the Democratic directors of R. F. C. would be Bernard Mannes Baruch, New York financier and onetime chairman...
Thus simply did a great jurist step down from the bench which his presence has graced, honored and liberalized for 29 full and fruitful years...
...Angeles last week, long, lean William Gibbs McAdoo cocked an acquisitive eye across the continent upon the big red leather chair in the U. S. Senate which holds the long, lean frame of Republican Senator Samuel Shortridge of Menlo Park, Calif. Would the son-in-law of Woodrow Wilson step out of the political obscurity which has enveloped him since his retreat from Madison Square Garden in 1924 and offer himself as a Democratic candidate for the Senate?* Solemnly Son- in-Law McAdoo announced: "A large number of men and women of standing and character have been urging...
...name of Helen Lee Eames, step-daughter of Oilman Henry Latham Doherty, was widely publicized last year at the time of her lavish debut in Washington (TIME. Jan. 5, 1931). The N. W. Ayer & Son advertising agency sent out publicity stating that Miss Doherty had conceived and executed the idea of decorating automobiles with hand-painted silhouets and giving them away to friends. It was said she "enlisted the assistance of Mrs. Natalie Macdonald Hall, a New York artist, in the work of painting and decorating the cars." Last week Artist Hall sued Miss Eames's mother, Mrs. Grace...
Radio advertising is a step or two be hind printed advertising in the way it em ploys good music. It has progressed to thi extent of presenting many famed individuals. (Notable this season is the General Electric Concert series given Sunday afternoons with different artists?last weel Soprano Lily Pons.) But Radio advertisers still stop short of chamber music?music in its purest form. The radio series of chamber musicales which started last week required the philanthropy of Mrs Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, the endowment she gave in 1925 to the Music Divi sion of the Library of Congress. The Rotl...