Word: veterans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...biggest U. S. bank outside Manhattan. Mario Giannini is operating head, second-in-command when his famed father is there, chief executive officer when his father is absent, which is about five months of the year. Slight, baldish, Mario Giannini is at 41 a veteran of one of the classic wars of U. S. financial history-the long Depression fight in which old Amadeo Giannini lost, then regained control of Transamerica Corp., owner of Bank of America. Son Mario has a severe Latin countenance, a subtle, acute intelligence, keeps his fingers on every phase of his big bank...
...International Tea Market Expansion Board in general, and Mr. Gervas Huxley in particular. Mr. Huxley, the tweedy common denominator of all Englishmen, is Novelist Aldous Huxley's cousin and the director of the famed BUY BRITISH campaign. Late in 1934 Mr. Huxley, along with a Dutchman and a veteran British tiger-hunter, arrived in the U. S. Mr. Huxley represented the Ceylon growers, the Dutchman spoke for Java-Sumatra and the tiger-hunter looked after India's vast interests. They were unable to find anyone in Manhattan interested in them or their tea until they were discovered...
...three major veterans' organizations responsible for the bill had settled their long-standing differences over Bonus payment by demanding more from the Government than any of them had ever formally asked before. The full maturity value of a Bonus certificate represents, in almost equal proportions, the Government's original grant in 1925 and interest to accrue on that grant until 1945. For the reasons stated in their preamble, the veterans' leaders demanded: 1) immediate payment of the full 1945 value of each certificate, less only the amount the holder had borrowed on it; 2) a refund...
...Tuscaloosa, Ala., a family council of kin of Mrs. Harriet Elizabeth Scott, 75, who had just died of pneumonia, decided to bury her in Little Sandy Cemetery near her Taylorsville home five miles away. Bitterly her son Hugh, 57, World War veteran protested that her dying wish had been to be buried in nearby Nazareth Cemetery. Overruled, he stalked into the night. Near dawn he returned, burst in among the kinsmen keeping the death watch, brandished a shotgun, picked up his mother's body and ran outside. He flung the body across the pommel of his horse...
Among others, the group will investigate Wesleyan University's series of lectures on government by veteran politicians; Princeton's seminar among government activities and agencies in Washington; Massachusetts Institute of Technology's courses on "engineering for the nations's service"; and the projected federal university of public affairs...