Word: stuarts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harold Leonard Stuart, white-haired president of Halsey, Stuart & Co., Insuil bankers, insisted that most of his firm's profits from Insuil deals were on paper, that the final collapse had washed most of them away. The Senators were curious about Halsey. Stuart's former radio program, "The Old Counselor." Inaugurated with an address by Pennsylvania's obstreperous Congressman McFadden, it was a weekly investment talk prepared by Halsey, Stuart and read by Professor Bertram Griffith Nelson of the University of Chicago because he had a "mellow voice." Banker Stuart protested that the "Old Counselor" had never...
Inquisitor Pecora read into the record a Halsey, Stuart letter to one Evelyn McNeil recommending that she sell her government bonds in order to buy debentures in an Insull holding company, then a letter to Halsey, Stuart asking: "For God's sake, is there any issue that Halsey, Stuart sold me that is not going into default?" Snapped Banker Stuart: "You are creating the impression that we sold nothing but worthless securities. We did sell some bad ones, like every other company, but the percentage was small. We are very proud of our record." Banker Stuart suggested that complete...
...would like to know whether this book was written, as it was published, after its author's recent success. "Pigeon Irsh," or whether it is an early work issued on the strength of the previous one. It was "Pigeon Irsh," which this reviewer has not read, that gave Mr. Stuart his position of prominence among the younger novelists; if "The Colored Dome" is really its successor, that position must be held tentative...
...baldly as that, the story of "The Colored Dome" sounds sufficiently empty, and the false, forced stylization of the author's prose does not much improve it. If this book is in reality an early experiment of Mr. Stuart, on e can only let it go at that, with the wish that it had not been published. But if it is not, if it really is a legitimate specimen of the contemporary Anglo Irish novel, then one can only regret it as a symptom of the distortion of a singularly original tradition of style, for a long time...
...Club's graduates. According to the announcement, the production was "redolent with themes of modern America, such as bootlegging, the Lions Club, the college at New Haven and trial by perjury." The leading parts in the cast of 35 players were taken by E. B. Cole '32, and Stuart Scott '33. It was managed by R. S. Neff...