Word: banker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...STREETS OF NEW YORK are drenched in crocodile tears in this gay musical spoof of Dion Boucicault's bustling and be-bustled 19th century tale of a dastard of a banker...
Perhaps the frankest of judges is General Sessions Judge Brown Taylor of Nashville, Tenn. He once dismissed a drunken-driving charge against a banker because "this man loaned me money when I needed it, and I'm going to help him now." After a witness in an assault case testified that the defendant struck him with a whip, Taylor offered some judicial advice: "Don't ever let anyone whip you. Take a gun and kill...
...success is Billy Prince, a brash, bouncy executive who reads poetry in his spare time, once wanted to be a schoolteacher. Prince had an unusual debut into meat packing. Born William Wood, he was adopted at 30 by Cousin Frederick H. Prince, an 81-year-old Boston banker who had no sons he thought able to take over his $150 million holdings. At Prince's request, Billy Wood took his cousin's name and a trustee's job, supervised a spread of trusts that eventually included 353,000 Armour shares. When Armour foundered a few years back...
...this good feeling Johnson is generating among the nation's businessmen bodes well for his chances in next fall's presidential election. Says Los Angeles Banker Howard Ahmanson, a lifelong Republican: "The Republican Party will have to dig up a really great man to convince me, economically speaking, that he would make a better President than Johnson, who is making the first decisive moves toward economy that I have seen in 30 years. Other Presidents have talked about economy, but Johnson has the leadership qualities that can make it fact." And Republican Charles B. ("Tex") Thornton, chairman...
...fashioned tongmen and newfangled business operators in San Francisco's Chinatown, tiny Dolly Gee, 64, was empress of finance. For more than 30 years, she was manager of the Bank of America's pagodalike Chinatown branch. Inheriting the shrewdness of her late father, Chinatown's first banker, Charlie Gee, Dolly built the branch deposits from $2,000,000 to $20 million, dished out hundreds of loans that put a financial base under half of Chinatown's enterprises during years when Chinese could not even get life insurance. A high point in her career came...