Word: bonde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bulk of future loans, was still a relatively long way off. But McCloy was already busy on the practical task of selling them. Even before he publicly took over, a bill was all set to be introduced in the New York State legislature making the Bank's bonds legal investments for New York State insurance firms. As insurance firms "domiciled" in New York own 50% of all U.S. insurance assets, this would open the door, when & if the bill is passed, to one of the biggest groups of bond buyers...
...savage picture of a man with haunted eyes which you labeled Sinclair Lewis in TIME, Jan. 20, together with the news item that he had been entombed like another Carrie Jacobs-Bond in that Forest Lawn of the Arts which is Hollywood, reminds one tragically of 20 unproductive years since Main Street and Anowsmith...
...heyday of the firm passed with the 19th Century. Gradually it curtailed its underwriting ventures, concentrated more & more on counseling the owners of large stock-&-bond portfolios. Finally the signature of Franklin D. Roosevelt* on the Banking Act of 1933 forced Roosevelt & Son to give up underwriting and securities dealing altogether...
...Birney Crum is the most esteemed of Allentown's 96,904 citizens. When his boys copped the Pennsylvania state basketball championship two years ago, the city gave him a $1,000 war bond and a watch. His gift for repeating last year...
Some bankers still bristle at Young's methods. Once Young was told by a banker that his lawyer had advised against handling a C. & 0. bond issue. Young snapped: "Why don't you get another law firm that will give you a favorable opinion?" Young's enemies, necessarily numerous because of his many lawsuits, call this "cutting corners." Young's friends call it "getting things done...