Word: financiere
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Died. Waddill Catchings, 88, Wall Street financier and spectacular loser in the 1929 crash; of a kidney infection; in Pompano Beach, Fla. During the market madness of the 1920s, Catchings rose from a clerk to president of investment bankers Goldman, Sachs & Co., sat on the boards of 29 companies, and...
The depositors should have little to worry about on this score. Intra Bank, when it collapsed in the fall of 1966 and sent Founder and Financier Yusef Bedas into hasty exile, turned out to hold loans of about $120 million made on virtually nonexistent collateral. But it also had another...
At 46, Alleghany Corp. President Charles Thomas Ireland Jr. is a veteran of more corporate combat than most businessmen could expect to see, or survive, in a lifetime. In 17 years with the huge holding company, which controls railroad, mutual funds, real estate and other interests worth more than $7...
The UFWOC organizers are concentrating their efforts on New England's largest chain, "Stop and Shop." The man who owns all 138 stores is Irving Rabb, financier, philanthropist, and member of Brandeis' Board of Trustees. Several months ago the Rabb Foundation, which is a family project, was discovered to be...
The financier may merit the honor even more than the philosopher. With Cornfeld putting up an office building and a host of new apartments to house his employees, the population of economically depressed Ferney-Voltaire has almost doubled, rising to 5,000; the town will be further enlivened by a...