Word: trusts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nationwide introduction will first be necessary but in making it, Boss Taggart will not lack for good things to say. President of the Fletcher Savings & Trust Co., a neat, grey man of 62, Candidate Woollen has frequently displayed fortitude combined with his philosophy. He bolted the Bryan organization in 1896. He told farmers who deposit in his bank that, sorry though he was for them, he viewed the McNary-Haugen farm relief scheme with alarm. Similarly he has risked the displeasure of manufacturers by denouncing high tariff time and again...
Nicaraguan President Adolfo Diaz, recognized by the U. S., has been consistently in such close harmony with U. S. nationals that he obtained last March a loan of $1,000,000 from the Manhattan firms of J. & W. Seligman & Co., and the Guaranty Trust Co. Therefore, last week it was only necessary for Presidential Representative Stimson to be firm with the Liberal faction of Nicaragua, whose President, Dr. Juan B. Sacasa, has been recognized as President of Nicaragua by the Mexican Government and has been declared to be the rightful holder of this office by the Chairman...
...expects Lewis Eugene Pierson, new president of the Chamber, to give all his time to the organization. He is chairman of the board of the American Exchange-Irving Trust Co., 13th largest bank, in point of deposits, in the world. But because his domestic and foreign banking, industrial and public utility affiliations are so widespread and so intricate, one hour's conference with him as president of the Chamber will bring more positive result than five hours' conference with a less extraordinary executive...
...stopping on the 17th floor the evening he addressed the United Press (TIME, May 2). ¶ In a Safe in the office of the U. S. Department of State reposes an object which all good Democrats hope will be taken out in 1929, which many good Republicans trust will remain undisturbed till 1933. The object is the Grand Cross of the National Order of Merit Carlos Manuel de Cespedes,* famed among Cubans as the Victoria Cross is famed among British, the Iron Cross among Germans. President Gerardo Machado of Cuba, lately a presidential guest (TIME, May 2), wished to bestow...
...Federal income tax law, provided no immunity to return-filers whose income was received from incriminating sources. He stood on his constitutional right to withhold incriminating evidence. The U. S. Treasury Department fought him hard, to avert a precedent whereby, for example, many a corporation secretly violating the anti-trust law might refuse to file income tax returns. . . . The Court pondered...