Word: wardman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...early part of 1930, after it was known that Mr. Wardman was in financial distress, some of the real estate men of Washington tried to interest me in the purchase of some of the Wardman properties, but I did not even go into the details of the matter-I told them I had been greatly distressed to learn that Mr. Wardman was in difficulties and I had been told if he could raise a million dollars he could clear up his situation. I told them that I thought that Mr. Wardman had done more than any other man to build...
...burst of oratory, bellowing: "In all the ages the tyrant, political, industrial or financial has been the one to suffer the guillotine; and I now warn the Halsey Stuarts, the Dohertys-I warn them all that their power to rob must cease." This attack was centred upon the Wardman Real Estate Properties Inc. holding company for $28,000,000 worth of apartment houses, office buildings and hotels, including famed Wardman Park Hotel...
Some time after this speech the Department of Justice (which rents a Wardman building) sought and obtained permission to go through Halsey, Stuart's books...
Last week white-haired Banker Stuart heard that the Blaine-made storm was about to break. In selling $13,500,000 worth of Wardman bonds the house had sold $200,000 in the Senator's home state, thus making possible a "use of the mails to defraud" charge. Anxious to protect his firm from the criticism which is aroused by any legal action, Mr. Stuart hurried to Washington, asked President Hoover to intervene. He was referred to Attorney General Mitchell who refused to act. Returning to Chicago, he prepared to face what he felt sure was a "frame...
...boys and 48 girls were comfortably housed at the huge Wardman Park Hotel where they splashed about in the swimming pool and gazed at big league ball players in the lobby. The first day they took, at George Washington University, an examination in history, geography, science and civics. The examinations were in the form of printed statements which the examinees marked true or false. The second, third and fourth days, the 48 boys and 48 girls saw eight short cinemas, made by Fox, dealing with geography, science (development of glaciers, life of a frog), history and civics (immigrant learning about...