Word: wisemen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Washington wisemen pondered the abrupt petering-out of this latest advertised Battle of the Century, saw ahead only victory for the Administration, barring a sudden unpredictable shift in the weather of World...
...this point, repeal of the arms embargo, and Senate adoption of the Pittman neutrality bill, seemed imminent certainties. Even the much-ignored and resentful House would probably whip through a bill in a few weeks, the wisemen believed. Congress might well adjourn before Thanksgiving...
...Pasadena Community Playhouse two years ago. After small parts in China clipper (TIME, Aug. 24, 1936) and a few minor films, he was cast as a boxer with Barton MacLane in a routine picture, first called Trial Horse, then Don't Pull Your Punches. The Warner wisemen looked at the rushes, rubbed their hands. Shelving the picture for the time being, they rushed Morris into Francis Wallace's Kid Galahad, surrounding him with such sure-fire stars as Bette Davis, Edward G. Robinson, Humphrey Bogart. The cinemaudience, just as the Warner wiseacres figured they would, took to Morris...
...Weir. National Steel was merger of Steelman Weir's Weirton Steel (which lacked adequate ore reserves), Cleveland's M. A. Hanna Co. (which had them) and Great Lakes Steel, whose plants were right at the back door of the automobile industry. Mr. Weir's fellow wisemen were George Humphrey of M. A. Hanna, who is now National Steel's executive committee chairman, and George R. Fink of Great Lakes Steel,, who is now National's president...
...three Weirton wisemen have been dropping in on Partner Strauss for the last few months whenever they were in Manhattan. Last week the result of their conversations was dispatched to Washington as a registration statement for $50,000,000 of 4% National Steel bonds. About $40,000,000 of the proceeds will be used to pay off other bonds bearing higher coupons, the $10,000,000 balance representing new capital for expansion of the Detroit plant...