Word: forgan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...following week Chicago's late Banker James B. Forgan received a note demanding $100,000, on pain of being bombed. Police arrested Reinhold Faust and convicted him of attempted extortion...
Reinhold Faust was a peaceful old man last week, but for over 21 years he had had no peace. When he was taken to Joliet Penitentiary to serve 14 months for threatening Banker Forgan, he was in a predicament. In Box No. 198 in the vaults of Chicago's National Safety Deposit Co. he had four black powder gaspipe bombs. He solved his problem momentarily by throwing away the safe deposit...
...name Forgan, new to the firm's stationery, is far from new to Chicagoans. Partner Forgan's father was the late David Robertson Forgan, founder of Chicago's old National City Bank. His uncle was the late great James Berwick Forgan, longtime head of Chicago's First National. One of Partner Forgan's cousins is executive vice president of First National today (James B. Forgan Jr.). Another cousin is an assistant vice president of Manhattan's National City Bank (Robert Forgan). The elder Forgans were Scots from St. Andrews, immigrants...
Following the family tradition, dapper, adroit "Russ" Forgan of Glore, Forgan & Co.-whose career at Princeton (Class of 1922) set a new high for social grace and near-professional virtuosity as leading man of the Triangle Club (musical comedies)-started in at commercial banking. He was a vice president of Chicago's National Bank of the Republic when he shifted to securities by joining Messrs. Field & Glore in 1931. He now heads the Manhattan office, while Partner Glore runs the Chicago office...
...time Marshall Field decided to quit, his firm had achieved financial maturity. It is generally understood that he left his money in the business with no strings attached in the form of special or limited partnership interests. Glore, Forgan & Co. will start the new year as one of the top underwriting houses of the country...