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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Seymour Parker Gilbert, who is three years younger than Leon Fraser, was appointed Agent General of Reparations in Berlin there seemed no reason why so young a man as Lawyer Fraser should not be appointed the Agent-General's agent in Paris. Making a huge success of this appointment, Agent Fraser was in at the Paris birth of the Young Plan in 1929. It abolished Reparations as such, abolished the Agent Generalship of Reparations (S. Parker Gilbert cheerfully became a Morgan Partner) and substituted a "businesslike" system of German payments to the Allies through an office at Basle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Red Tape Cutter | 2/27/1933 | See Source »

World Bank & World Conference. Aged 70 and having launched the B. I. S. with conspicuous success, Gates W. Mc-Garrah hinted last January his intention to retire as President next May. Europe buzzed at first with rumors that a British subject would succeed him. Lately reporters changed their tune, asked Alternate Fraser if he knew he was going to be elected President McGarrah's successor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Red Tape Cutter | 2/27/1933 | See Source »

...days, and only lost a few dollars on the whole business. After the dance last night fifteen of us got together and went the rounds of all the Houses and the Yard, delivering a paper under each door. The whole affair is a great success. It is admittedly a publicity stunt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 2/23/1933 | See Source »

...sons take to railroading, but his eldest is determined to be a singer. Railroader Atterbury once remarked: "If you become the greatest musician in the world, what of it?" He reads very light novels, likes duckshooting, plays his own rules at contract with a stern righteousness and no little success. While working he smokes endless cigarets, whistles most of the time. Once on the coast of Alaska his 110-ft. yacht was boarded by revenue agents who seized his stock of rye whiskey and champagne. General Atterbury fumed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: State & Stakeholders | 2/20/1933 | See Source »

Starting with a maple-syrup agency and her husband's name, Bea managed to struggle along till she gathered in Delilah, a great black mammy with a beautiful disposition and a gift for cooking. The first B. Pullman waffle shop on the Board Walk was such a success that others followed. Bea, gradually discovering unsuspected executive talents, went on from hard-won struggles to easy victories, finally dotted half the U. S. with B. Pullmans. When she plunged into Manhattan real estate she emerged a millionairess. Meantime she was buying her only daughter social-educational advantages, often wishing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Success Story | 2/20/1933 | See Source »

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