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...annual supper dance of the Harvard Menorah Society will be held tonight at 10 o'clock, in the Southern House in Brookline, with Lew Tobin and his Hotel Wentworth Orchestra supplying the music. Supper will be served at midnight, and the dance will continue until 2 o'clock. Bud Brooks of radio fame, as well as eight other radio entertainers, will be there...
When portly Oliver Mitchell Wentworth Sprague resigned as the Treasury's hard money adviser, he warned his onetime pupil Franklin Roosevelt that "there is no defense from a drift into unrestrained inflation other than an aroused and organized public opinion." Last week that opinion was mightily taking shape...
When the oaths had been taken the President turned his clear blue eyes upon the group. They passed over Mrs. Roosevelt; noted standing in the background the man who was his economic instructor at Harvard 30 years ago, Dr. Oliver Mitchell Wentworth Sprague, more recently adviser to the Bank of England; noted youngish Dean Acheson, retiring Undersecretary of the Treasury, tall, lean and dark; noted a couple of assistant secretaries, the Comptroller of the Currency, the Commissioner of Industrial Alcohol, the Directress of the Mint, the Chief of the Secret Service, a member of the Federal Reserve Board; noted, also...
...secret was it that Dr. Sprague was considering resigning. The moment came when Pupil Morgenthau, as Acting Secretary of the Treasury, decided there was room for only one school of thought, announced rigorous censorship of Treasury news, forbade government officials direct contact with the Press. Oliver Mitchell Wentworth Sprague forthwith called newsmen together, issued his resignation. Said he, in a letter to the President...
...Cambridge, Mass, bank engaged in a minor financial transaction with a man named Sprague, inquired of Mr. Sprague's regular bankers if his credit was good, got the following reply: "Mr. Oliver Mitchell Wentworth Sprague has been our client for many years and has always had our confidence in his credit and integrity. Mr. Sprague holds the Edmund Cogswell Converse Professorship of Banking & Finance at Harvard and has served as professor of Economics at the Imperial University in Tokyo. In 1930 he went to London where for two years he was financial adviser to the Bank of England...