Word: captains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Later upon the scene came fat but foppish Captain Cohn. He has turned his hundreds of pounds into thousands and his thousands into millions by a series of wily maneuvers which have enabled him to get control of a huge, commanding bloc of Wagons-Lits securities. Shrewd, unctuous, Captain Cohn is not, however, the man to be satisfied with mere control. He is planning an amazing, manipulative coup. Last month he and Lord Dalziel visited Manhattan and quietly applied to list the shares of Wagons-Lits upon the New York Stock Exchange. If that listing is granted, they are reported...
Champagne, although far from being the favorite beverage of Wagons-Lits Chairman Davison Dalziel, Baron Dalziel (pronounced Dee-el) of Wooler, figures indispensably in the diet of Lord Dalziel's shrewdly machinating colleague in the management of Wagons-Lits, Captain Jefferson Davis. Cohn, financial adventurer who has ventured to invest heavily in Wagons-Lits stock...
...Captain Cohn no one will ever write the true biography. Presumably untrue is the tale that he got his stake in life through pocketing by agreement 40% of all he could wheedle from the late eccentric Baron Michelham in the interest of the estranged Baroness, Aimee Geraldine, nee Bradshaw. Today Captain Cohn, a fat, unctuous personage with a great mane of blond hair, is to be seen, sleekly appareled and carrying a lady's parasol to shield his eyes, at every major race meeting in Europe. Frequently, very frequently, his horses win. His Sir Galahad distanced Epinard...
...only that, but in London British patriots began to suspect that a U. S. corporation might join the Cooks-Wagons-Lits merger. Of these possibilities Captain Cohn naturally said not a word last week. Instead he expanded on the immediate benefits of merging "Cooks' " into Wagons-Lits. With a bland contented air, Captain Cohn said...
...Dartmouth Freshmen at the Arena this afternoon at 1.30 o'clock, in what promises to be one of the best games of the season. With only one goal registered against them all season, the Freshmen look upon today's encounter with high hopes. P. R. Watts '31 and Captain S. I. Batchelder '31 are the leading players on the first year sextet...