Word: banker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Germany, Eric Warburg, 66, a naturalized U.S. citizen, has helped make his family's Hamburg investment bank one of the fastest-growing financial houses on the Continent. His cousin Siegmund Warburg, 63, has become the most rapidly expanding merchant banker of London's City. Increasingly, the two men are uniting. Siegmund holds an interest in Eric's Hamburg bank, and Eric has a stake in Siegmund's recently started Frankfurt branch...
...York theater chain threatened to do the same. The New York City Human Rights Commission even called for an investigation of Coca-Cola. At that point, Coca-Cola decided it had had enough pop shots. Farley announced that the company was awarding an Israeli franchise to Manhattan Banker Abraham Feinberg, who is also president of the Israel Development Corp., which promotes Bonds for Israel. The decision, crowed the Anti-Defamation League, "will show other American corporations the sham that the Arab boycott really is." The Arabs remained to be heard from...
...Lyndon Johnson's favorite anecdotes concerns the Texas judge who is informed by a friend that a legislative committee has voted to abolish his bench. "Who testified against me?" demands the judge. "Well," says his friend, "there was Banker Jones." "He's usurious," snaps the magistrate. "He cheats little ol' ladies out of their life savings. Who else?" The acquaintance lists all the other witnesses, and with growing rage the judge denounces each as a scoundrel or worse. Finally the friend confesses that he has been kidding, that the committee in fact has rejected the bill...
...secondary offering will rank behind only the Ford Foundation's $658 million sale of Ford stock ten years ago. Hughes stands to net about $400 million on his original investment of some $90 million in TWA. What will he do with the money? Said one top Wall Street banker: "I hope he changes it into pennies and drops...
...indeed gone too far. Fearing a split within the armed forces, the junta agreed to step down, and the military high command-led by General Telmo Vargas, chief of the general staff -invited politicians to designate a provisional president. They chose Clemente Yerovi Indaburu, 61, a respected economist, banker and businessman who promised "congressional and presidential elections as soon as possible...