Word: changer
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...once in 42 years has a man died in the U. S. about whom he could not be generous. That was Publisher Frank Munsey, whose obituary stated briefly that he had "contributed to the journalism of his day the talent of a meat packer, the morals of a money changer and the manners of an undertaker...
...Brooklyn realtor, Bertrand Coles Neidecker sold bonds, went to France in 1916, joined the Lafayette Escadrille, won several decorations. After the War, he remained in Europe, setting himself up as a money changer to U. S. troops in the Allied occupation of the Rhineland. His Paris bank, a logical sequel, was started in 1921, catered to itinerant U. S. citizens and French aristocrats...
James Warburg, son of the late great Paul Moritz Warburg, no longer sees eye to economic eye with the President. Last week he poured polite but pointed damnation on the economic theories of the three who spoke before him. Mentioning money changers," Mr. Warburg said: "The first time I heard this phrase was when it fell from the lips of the President in his Inaugural Address. I did not like it then. . . . What is a money changer? If it is one who desired to change money, that is to alter money, then I wonder which one of us four...
...that the government will enter the European market for gold. Although this should have been obvious to all who had examined the basis of his program for the commodity dollar, Wall Street chose to pull a face long enough to upset the day's trading and between the money changer and the moneychanger an unpleasant altercation threatens to develop. More significant than this, however, is the effect which the President's action must have on the growing tide of economic nationalism. A frank and cynical attempt by a great nation to jockey itself into a favorable agricultural market...
...tall, slim son of a Brooklyn realtor, quit the U. S. Air Corps and joined Herbert Clark Hoover's relief mission to the starving Poles. He married a Pole, Sybil, daughter of Maurice Washington Kozminski of the French Line, and set himself up in Coblenz as a money changer to confused U. S. soldiers in the Army of Occupation. Later he moved to Paris, opened a Travelers Bank a few doors from Morgan et Cie. By 1928 Banker Neidecker had bought a yacht, put his bank in larger quarters in the Rue de la Paix, where junketing...