Word: batterson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stock Exchange stopped trading long enough to hear President Whitney solemnly announce a suspension -first in more than a year. To the members assembled and to U. S. citizens young & old, the name that President Whitney uttered was associated not with banking or finance but with cowpunching. Partner John Batterson Stetson Jr. of Philadelphia's Stetson & Blackman is the son of the founder of John B. Stetson Co., whose hats were (and still are) as much a fixture of the cow country from Athabasca Landing to the Strait of Magellan as the cows themselves...
...Gates and Col. John Adams Drake, were transferring activity to Wall Street. Later the firm played a big part in James R. Keene's operations in United States Steel. Broker for some big Hartford insurance companies. Pynchon became intrenched in New England. Legend has it that James Goodwin Batterson Jr., son of the founder of Travelers Insurance, once cleared $1,000,000 in a year's operations through the firm...
...crouching in Madison Square Garden toward Kid Chocolate (Eligio Sardinias), flashy Cuban Negro. With an eye for an evening's entertainment and the support of the Italian vote at the next election. Governor John Trumbull of Connecticut was at the ringside rooting for Battalino and so was Mayor Walter Batterson of Hartford. Wild and scared in the first round, feeling the hostility of the crowd which had called him "cheese champion" because he kept his title safe by fighting only at catchweights, Battalino ran into one of Chocolate's short, clean punches, went down for a count of eight, tottered...
Stetson & Blackman was formed as an investment banking house in Philadelphia last week and Partner John Batterson Stetson Jr. bought a seat on the New York Stock Exchange. From 1925 until last January, Mr. Stetson was U. S. Minister to Poland, specialized on U. S.-Polish financial relations. He is the son & namesake of the founder of John B. Stetson Co. (hats), was in that business for several years...