Word: dakotan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tall, rugged, affable North Dakotan who spent no little part of his naval career installing accounting systems in Navy bases, John Hancock turned $2,000,000 deficits into profits, used profits to pay off $4,500,000 of debts, made up a capital deficit and generally provided a shining example of what a conscientious banking house can do for an industrial client. In 1924 he became a very active partner in Lehman Brothers, and has since been Jewel's board chairman and a mighty hunter of mountain goats. Several years before that, he picked another onetime Navy officer, Commander Maurice...