Word: portfolios
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ministers without Portfolio: Dr. Hanns Frank, Dr. Hjalmar Schacht...
Into my sales kit today goes current TIME open at pp. 34-35. What a sales portfolio would I and thousands of Studebaker salesmen have in a TIME carrying in one issue the ads of all companies that cooperate with Studebaker in making CHAMPION the great Champion it is. For instance, Firestone Champion tires, Champion plugs, Lockheed brakes, Willard batteries, Timken bearings, Perfect Circle rings, Carter carburetors, and other items...
Because the late great Leland Stanford had wisely willed his trustees great latitude in investment, Herbert Hoover and friends got permission to revise their portfolio. Meanwhile, many another trustee, bound by strict fiduciary laws and without latitude to switch to common stocks, faced an immediate menace: New Deal fiscal policy has reduced interest rates so low that with every refinancing the dollar yield of securities gets closer to the vanishing point...
Seven years ago 37-year-old Italian Foreign Minister Dino Grandi was the most dashing figure on the diplomatic stage and the fair-haired boy of Fascism as well. Then, in a surprise Cabinet shakeup, Dictator Benito Mussolini took away spade-bearded Dino Grandi's portfolio and made himself Foreign Minister. Some thought that Il Duce was miffed at the way Signer Grandi had conducted Italy's side of the negotiations at the Reparations Conference at Lausanne, but a more widely accepted theory was that he had violated Mussolini Commandment...
...this Galeazzo was promoted to the rank of major and was awarded two silver medals. Il Duce began to be convinced he had the makings of a leader; the Count reciprocated by aping the postures, speech, manners of his father-in-law. When he returned home the portfolio of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs awaited him, although he was only...