Word: firms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...graduation only three of his classmates thought him "most likely to succeed." Having majored in English literature, Bill Martin had ideas of teaching, instead became a clerk in his father's bank at $67.50 a month. Thence he moved to the St. Louis firm of A. G. Edwards & Sons as a statistician, in 1931 was sent to Manhattan as its Exchange member. Immediately intrigued by the machinery of the Exchange, he often stood, mouth agape, watching speculation flow around him on the floor. Soon he was an expert at all phases of the market, could quote the capitalizations...
...pressed steadily along the line he announced as he took office: "Our duty is plain. We must do everything in our power to provide as safe and as efficient a market for the nation's securities as can be devised. . . ." He ousted the firm of Carter, Ledyard & Milburn as Exchange lawyers, a post they had held for 60 years, because Partner Roland Redmond had been too closely identified in the public mind with Richard Whitney's fight against reform. He jammed through SEC's short-selling rule. He inaugurated a series of round-table talks with...
Alfred Krupp was the particular protégé of Bismarck and Wilhelm I. The Franco-Prussian War advertised his products and the Krupp firm became the greatest manufacturer of armaments in the world. Alfred Krupp retired to his castle in the Ruhr Valley in quivering hypochondria, went to bed in a room overlooking the stables, for he was always stimulated by the smell of horses. His son Fritz, while the German Navy grew like a house afire and the family firm got most of the armor plate orders, went to Capri, founded a mock religious order with gold insignia...
...alive is a burly, white-haired man of 69 who lives and does most of his breathing at a drafting board in Detroit's New Center Building. Albert Kahn has been Packard's architect for 35 years, Ford's for 30, Chrysler's since the firm was incorporated in 1925, General Motors' on 127 projects. And as the products of those companies girdle the globe, so do the works of Albert Kahn, Inc. Employing a normal staff of 400, his is the biggest private architectural machine in the world. Its greatest job: supervising the creation...
...exemplified at its cheesiest in the $20,000,000 boom-time Fisher Building in Detroit. For fun, he allows himself to design one house a year-this year a Georgian one. Senior of six brothers, four of whom he put through college, two of whom work in the Kahn firm, Albert is both spark plug and patriarch. He belongs to six golf clubs, has never so much as addressed a ball. Like his brothers, he still prefers a nap on the drafting table to a night...