Word: streets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flowing in from U. S. diplomats abroad-Wilbur Carr in Prague, Hugh Wilson in Berlin, Bill Bullitt in Paris, Bill Phillips in Rome, Joe Kennedy in London. After listening to Mr. Kennedy at length on the transatlantic telephone, Secretary of State Hull marched out of his office, across the street to the White House, to give a verbatim account of what Prime Minister Chamberlain had just told-and asked-Joe Kennedy...
...natural that their fight for it is personally motivated, for even lawyers have emotions. Partner Cohen says: "If we have to become propagandists, we were driven to it." When Senator Tydings of Maryland or Senator George of Georgia snarls at "two little Wall Street lawyers who want the power to say who shall or shall not be Senators," they know well that their quarrel is not with Lawyers Corcoran & Cohen but with Client Roosevelt...
...director of Palestine Economic Corp., wherein he first tasted planned economy. In the reckless 19205 he was not above playing the stockmarket. A killing Chrysler stock (he was so excited about it at the time that he used gleefully to point to every Chrysler he saw on the street) made him temporarily rich. He kept enough pelf for comfort, is not "socialistic because of the Crash." Revisiting Harvard in 1924, Ben Cohen walked into his old room. The current occupant was out. His name was Thomas Gardiner Corcoran. They did not meet until nine years later, when T. G. Corcoran...
...with an English trot to study the parsing. Dante and Montaigne were the young scholar's favorite writers. From those golden days he carried away a store of literary sparklers which today he sprinkles through Franklin Roosevelt's speeches. From Justice Holmes he passed into the Wall Street law firm of Cotton, Franklin. Wright & Gordon. His take from the booming '20s was some promotion stock in a company he helped organize for one of his bosses. This stock became worth $250,000 but he could not sell it, still has it, depreciated but paying dividends. These...
Devised by the Wall Street house of John J. Bergen & Co., Ltd., the new issue is composed of $4,000,000 in 5% debenture shares to be sold at $25 each. Convertible into stock at fixed intervals, the debentures carry no lien but Sunray Oil covenants not to create any mortgage, pledge or lien upon its shares unless the new debenture shares are equally secured. In having no fixed maturity, the new issue is like a consol or certain British "debenture shares." Where the new issue is unique is in Sunray's contract to set aside a sinking fund...