Word: bankster
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When it suddenly closed, Bankster Neidecker was not to be found. He was rumored to be cruising in the Mediterranean in his yacht. Shooting Star. He was supposed to have deserted his extravagant apartments on Avenue Foch for his villa at Deauville. He was reported to be in London seeking financial support. But, as French police soon discovered in their own records, Bankster Neidecker was safe aboard the Britannic, Manhattan bound...
...Bankster Neidecker's arrival in the U. S. last week was more harassing than his departure from France. Slipping quietly from his ship, he sought refuge in Manhattan's Hotel Waldorf-Astoria, where he registered as "Peter" Neidecker. (His French friends always called him "Pete.") Reporters reaching him by telephone last week asked bluntly whether he was the missing Paris banker. "Why, absolutely not!" said he. Who was he, then? He was a brother. Reminded that he had only two brothers neither named Peter, he explained pleasantly: "Strange, strange-apparently there are others...
...city, Lemuel sets out for Manhattan, falls victim to a confidence man. and is jailed by mistake. Here his dismantling begins: all his teeth are pulled out by order of the kindly warden. Lemuel is surprised to meet his friend Shagpoke in prison. To Lem's commiseration the bankster replies: "I am an American businessman, and this place is just an incident in my career...
...elsewhere. Albert Henry Wiggin wanted to make Chase the biggest bank in the U. S. He did-but not by gobbling up $245,000,000 Corn Exchange, which advertises "a bank statement that any man or woman can understand." Chase, whose statement at that time no man but Bankster Wiggin could understand, bought & bought until it owned a 20% interest. But Mr. Wiggin was kept busy by other jobs, and the 150,000 shares gathered dust in the Chase vaults. Last week Chase's Chairman Winthrop Aldrich, still raking Mr. Wiggin's cabbage patch...
...Shortest stockholders' meeting of the week was Western Union's: ten minutes. Re-elections of directors were unanimous with one exception. A stockholder controlling 125 shares refused to vote for Bankster Albert Henry ("Al") Wiggin...