Word: lamont
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Boycott Fizzles. When the Roman Catholic boycott of Mexican commerce was instituted (TIME, Aug. 16 et seq.) Thomas W. Lamont, potent international banker, stern, suave partner of J. P. Morgan & Co., requested his agents in Mexico to survey the boycott situation from a purely financial aspect...
...Lamont Report," as it was promptly christened, sped over humming rails from Mexico City to Manhattan last week. Conclusion: 1) That Mexican commerce has returned to normal in every Mexican state but one. 2) That in the city of Guadalajara, famed Roman Catholic stronghold, commerce has regained a level of about 60% of normal...
Well poised, the Lamont agents did not scorn to include picturesque details in their fiscal tabulation. They reported that: 1) Roman Catholic families, enjoined not to attend the cinema, have very widely eschewed the cinema houses which they individually patronized, but have sought others in parts of their cities where they are not known. 2) At Guadalajara many self-styled devout Roman Catholics, imperfectly converted from paganism, are to be seen on their knees in streets praying to Xochimilco, the pagan god of Mexico City's canal district, imploring him to loose floods upon President Calles as a punishment...
...better proof of the value of CRIMSON training can be offered than by citing a few names of former editors. Professor James H. Woods, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Owen Wister, William Roscoe Thayer, Ambassador Haughton, Joseph Clark Drew, T. W. Lamont, and Melville E. Stone represent a few CRIMSON editors who have succeeded after college...
...Austin Lamont '27, Room...