Word: banker
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...each sent six, Russia two, Nigeria one. Among the arrivals were many who had turned journalist just for the occasion: U.S. Novelist Irwin (The Young Lions) Shaw, whose "incisive understanding of the Nazi mentality" was under contract to Hearst; Indian Poet Dom Moraes, representing Encounter, a British magazine; U.S. Banker Ira Hirschmann for Look...
Long associated with Philadelphia's Drexel & Co., Investment Banker Thomas Sovereign Gates Jr., followed his father as a partner in 1940, left 13 years later for a succession of Defense Department posts, wound up as Eisenhower's last Defense Secretary. Last week, after a long vacation from Pentagon politics, Main Liner Gates received his Capital gain: the executive committee chairmanship of Manhattan's gold-plated Morgan Guaranty Trust...
Died. Horace Rowan Gaither Jr., 51, lawyer and investment banker who served variously as assistant director of M.I.T.'s wartime Radiation Laboratory, board chairman of the prestigious Rand Corp. and president of the Ford Foundation, a powerful but little known administrator until he took center stage in 1957 with ' his controversial, still secret "Gaither Report," said to warn of perilous deficiencies in U.S. defenses; of lung cancer; in Boston...
...spending?" as "What do we have to spend to do what we have to do?" Nonetheless, the massive Pentagon requests are clipped just about as hard as before. Kennedy, said one aide, "may have the brain of an Irishman, but he's got the heart of a Boston banker...
...kindness, Jock Whitney nonetheless thought he could do without "the leadership of this bedeviled city of ours," reported himself "committed to my responsibility as owner of the Herald Tribune." An also-run suggestion of Keating's was no more enticed by the $40,000 post. Said Banker David Rockefeller, 45, youngest of Governor Nelson Rockefeller's four brothers and a prewar City Hall aide: "From my work with Mayor La Guardia, I have an idea what the job is. Frankly, I feel very happy at the Chase Manhattan Bank...