Word: wilson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Wilson vetoed the Volstead Act. The House repassed it the same day, the Senate the next...
When politicians seek to legislate upwards and fix by law the prices of U. S. farm commodities, a man who wonders what price levels the politicians would recommend is Eugene Meyer Jr., the mentally mobile New York banker whom President Wilson called in in 1918 to direct War Finance Corp., whom President Harding called back in 1921, whom President Coolidge reappointed in 1925, and who last May was made chief of the reorganized Federal Farm Loan Bureau. In his inconspicuous office at Washington, he has received malcontents, and their political spokesmen, during three Administrations. His record of financial diplomacy...
...enterprises. William Randolph Hearst, for all his wealth, is publicly a director only in Cosmopolitan Finance Co., and the International Film Service Co. His Arthur Brisbane, who is rich in real estate and touts great corporations in his syndicated editorials, is known to be director of no company. Roy Wilson Howard tends closely to his newspaper and affiliated enterprises. So also Conde-Nast, Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis and the Booths (George G. and Ralph Harman) of Detroit, and Adolph Ochs. Messrs. Patterson and McCormick of the Chicago Tribune and Liberty are close to inherited interests in great corporations, not publishing...
Bernard Mannes Baruch, who was an active and great stock market operator before he became President Wilson's War aid, returned to Wall Street last week by renting offices in the neighborhood. He intends to supervise his large investments, not to barter. His son Bernard M. Baruch Jr. recently bought a seat on the New York Exchange...
Henry Belin du Pont, rich & ardent young assistant treasurer of the E. I. du Pont de Nemours Co. at Wilmington, Del., in April became engaged to Margaret Wilson Lewis at San Antonio, Texas. Separating them are 1,600 air miles. So last week Mr. du Pont had delivered to him a $12,000 Bellanca plane, wherewith to fly to his sweetheart each weekend...