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...bulging (6 ft. 2 in., 256 lbs.), blue-eyed son of an immigrant Lithuanian shopkeeper, Chesler grew up in Peterborough, Ont., quit university to go to work on Toronto's Bay Street. As a customer's man for the brokerage firm of Draper Dobie & Co. Ltd., he showed a talent for picking the right stocks, later grew rich underwriting dozens of Canada's new mining projects, chiefly those of Ventures Limited, the mining colossus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TYCOONS: A Fast $70 Million | 3/30/1959 | See Source »

Unknown Giant. The man who benefited most from the fast rise is an up-from-the-sidewalks Canadian financier and promoter, Louis Arthur Chesler, 46, chairman and prime mover of both Universal and General. Lou Chesler came to the U.S. three years ago with $4,000,000, has since run up a paper profit of $70 million on his Universal and General holdings alone. Yet few Wall Streeters know him, since he keeps in the background, trains the limelight on his U.S.-born junior partners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TYCOONS: A Fast $70 Million | 3/30/1959 | See Source »

...Americans were willing to retire in Florida and that their incomes averaged $160 a month. The Mackles felt they could put up a house priced for such a small income, but they lacked the bankroll to swing a nationwide promotion. To get it, they teamed with Canadian Financier Louis Chesler, 45, who had rolled up a fortune by underwriting mining promotions. Chesler has poured in about $5,640,000 to date, is General Development's chairman, with Frank Mackle as president...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOUSING: New Boom in Florida | 5/19/1958 | See Source »

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