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...after Mr. Jones, George Vincent Mclaughlin, president of Brooklyn Trust Co. and of the New York State Bankers Association, spoke his mind to the Association: "It has been said that we should not permit our banking system to become a football for speculators. To this I will add that neither should we permit it to become a football for politicians. . . . We [Brooklyn Trust Co.] made an analysis of all applications for business loans ranging from $2,000 upwards received during the first eight months of this year. . . . We found that the demand for business credit had shrunk 50% from...
...Hyde Park vacation over, President Roosevelt cruised down the Hudson as the guest of Vincent Astor, realtor, banker, backer of the forthcoming weekly Today (see p. 24). With them were half a dozen non-political friends-the same group that fished together off Florida last February just before Chicago's Mayor Cermak was assassinated at Miami. Above the Nourmahal floated the Presidential flag-four white stars on a blue field. President Roosevelt thought it was the first time in U. S. history that that emblem had been used on a private yacht. Heeling the Nourmahal were two naval watchdogs...
...What Vincent Astor does not know about publishing magazines would doubtless fill the logbook of his yacht Nourmahal. What William Averell Harriman does not know about it would fill the minute-book of his Union Pacific board of directors. Mr. Harriman's sister, Mrs. Mary Harriman Rumsey, chairlady of the NRA Consumers Advisory Board, once backed a friend, William Johnson, in an ambitious but unsuccessful Editors' Feature Service (newspaper syndicate), but she is no editorial genius. Neither, for popular purposes, is Raymond Moley, criminologist, economist and erstwhile chief of President Roosevelt's Brain Trust, whose resignation therefrom...
Just before he boarded Vincent Astor's Nourmahal to go fishing last week President Roosevelt appointed a Planning & Coordination Committee for the oil industry. It was the last big jig in the Government's design for oil's recovery. Congress had granted the President power to regulate oil shipped in interstate commerce. Oilmen had signed a code. Secretary of Interior Ickes had been named oil administrator. To oilmen most important of all was the P. C. C. Its 15 members would settle the key question of price-fixing. Checking off the appointees last week, oilmen soon...
...Moines, where he was conducting evangelistic services at the Pentecostal Church of God, Dr. Charles Arthur De Bussy Du Bugginsdale Vincent Maurice John Courtney Hetherington, 45, was arrested on a charge of stealing Bibles in Detroit...