Word: warburgs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rainey flayed Hard Moneyman Sprague for flouncing out of Washington as a presidential ad- viser. Frank Arthur Vanderlip, ex-banker and onetime enthusiast for Technocrat Howard Scott, burbled his delight at the President's monetary experiment. To answer them up rose the fourth and last speaker, James Paul Warburg. 37-year-old vice chairman of the Bank of The Manhattan Co., himself no monetary conservative, who from March 4 to midsummer stood closest to one of President Roosevelt's many ears...
...whether the Roosevelt administration can stand criticism and how it will held back has come earlier than expected. The general belief was that the Roosevelt administration would encounter its first public opposition when Congress reconvened in January. But the attack let loose by Alfred E. Smith, James B. Warburg, Professor Sprague and others who disagree with the administration's monetary policy is forcing the issue rather early...
...friends of Henry Street, Governor Herbert Henry Lehman (who once worked in the Settlement), Alfred Emanuel Smith (whose native Oliver Street is hard by), the late Theodore Roosevelt and Ramsay MacDonald. Last spring, ailing at 66, Miss Wald gave up her post as Head Worker, succeeded Banker Felix Moritz Warburg as president. In announcing that Helen Hall would become Head Worker, Banker Warburg said: "New York is to be congratulated." Born some 35 years ago in Boston, Helen Hall is as professional in manner as most social workers, but more comely. During the War she did Red Cross work, established...
...tight or go definitely on. The President, still without consulting his Brain Trust, began to draft in the White House a second message to the Conference. Amid his labors he called up Secretary Hull for an extra secret talk. In London, when U . S. Banker-expert James P. Warburg entered the room in which Mr. Hull was telephoning, a meaning jerk of the Secretary of State's head caused him hastily to withdraw. Tension meanwhile was slackening. "I will lunch with the U. S. Delegation tomorrow," said French Finance Minister Bonnet. "We must not destroy all signs of confidence...
...standard statesmen, dubbed "Golders" by London correspondents, wrote in succession seven statements. These were carried one after the other by British Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain into another room. There they were rejected one after another by the U. S. Delegation's acting fiscal expert James P. Warburg. The eighth draft he passed. It was transmitted to the President by Professor Raymond Moley who proved, last week, a great disappointment to the Conference. Delegates had hoped they could get down to business with him and really negotiate. Instead Dr. Moley. bland and self-possessed, talked courteously with everyone...