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...lists of Morgan "friends" who were cut into stock deals below the market included the names of New Jersey's Senator Kean, Massachusetts' Lieutenant Governor Gaspar Bacon, Edgar Rickard, business associate of Herbert Hoover, Arkansas' Harvey Couch, now on R. F. C., Connecticut's G. O. P. Boss John Henry Roraback. The only "friend" revealed as having turned down a Morgan offer on ethical grounds was Board Chairman Edward Grant Buckland of New York, New Haven & Hartford R. R. Partner Whitney made a spirited defense of his firm's practice on the ground that...
Harvey Crowley Couch, president of Arkansas Power & Light Co., R. F. C. board member LL.D...
...have suffered from neglect, he gained in independence and self-sufficiency. Then there were always the summer holidays at Barmouth, at John o'Groat's, or on the island of Jersey, where he climbed rocks and swam with such of his father's students as "Q" Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch. On one occasion, at Cadgwith it was, young Grant surprised Madame Modjeska and Forbes-Robertson deuning the "ample bathing dresses of the time" under enormous towels. "Go away, rude little boy", one of the ladies called out; and he ran off ashamed at his unmannerly curiosity...
...sharply did this last seem aimed at Japan's position in China that the world cocked an eye at Washington, where Japan's chief delegate to the London Conference, Viscount Ishii, was momentarily due, to sit on President Roosevelt's famed black leather couch and talk as friends, face to face, about what the world needed. It even looked as though President Roosevelt, having melted Europe's frozen attitudes, was prepared to cool the runaway conflagration in Asia...
...gotten around to filling three Republican directorships. The business before the board was the election of a chairman, a post vacant since March 4 when bald, bumbling Atlee Pomerene, Hoover appointee, was forced out by the Senate's refusal to confirm his nomination. Together went the Woodin, Couch and McCarthy heads. When they came apart Jesse Jones, Houston publisher, realtor, banker, lumberman and promoter, found himself unanimously elected R. F. C. chairman. Chairman Jones has been on the R. F. C. board since its inception (February 1932), has acted as chairman in rotation with the other three active members...