Word: rfchairman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...went to Cordell Hull (University of Pennsylvania and Yale), New York's Special Racket Prosecutor Thomas E. Dewey (Tufts and the University of Michigan), new President Frederick Harold Stinchfield of the American Bar Association (Bowdoin and Bates), retiring President Mary Emma Woolley of Mount Holyoke (Bucknell and Columbia), RFChairman Jesse Holman Jones (Temple and New York University), John Gilbert Winant, onetime chairman of the Social Security Board (Oberlin and Knox). G-Man John Edgar Hoover accepted an Sc.D. from Kalamazoo College and an LL.D. from Westminster College (Fulton...
Minneapolis & St. Louis went into receivership in 1923, was ordered sold in 1929. Old bondholders have not been willing to put up the cash necessary to put through a reorganization. RFChairman Jesse Jones was all ready to partition the fallen carrier among other western railroads (TIME, Sept. 23, 1935), but that plan involved abandonment of 500 miles of line. The communities which would lose their railroad put screws on their Congressmen, who have thus far blocked the Jones partition plan. Old Frederick Henry Prince, who has bought and sold a railroad or two in his 77 crotchety years, also...
Early comers had been spooked by the knowledge that Federal Reserve Board Chairman Marriner Stoddard Eccles, Comptroller of the Currency James Francis Thaddeus O'Connor, and RFChairman Jesse Holman Jones, still convalescent after his air-crash shake-up three months ago, were all in San Francisco. Of these, only Jesse Jones was slated to address the convention but rumor had it that his colleagues represented a New Deal concentration for pressure purposes. It was a false alarm. Mr. Eccles disappeared in the general direction of home at Ogden, Utah. Mr. O'Connor merely issued cheery figures on California...
...vary the routine of honoring all its own Heroes on the occasion of its Centennial (TIME, June 8), Texas last week unveiled in Dallas a statue of Virginia's one & only Robert E. Lee. Orator at the dedication was RFChairman Jesse Jones, who, as the biggest man in Houston, founded by Texas' most famed Hero, rivals Vice President John Nance Garner for the current title of No. 1 Texan. Duty done, Mr. Jones hopped off for Houston by plane...
Next day, soon after a visit from the uninjured RFChairman, Pilot Schacher died. Deeply moved, Jesse Jones paid his tribute to a new Texas Hero...