Word: goldman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there was one more thing he was to do for her. The old commercial paper house of Goldman, Sachs had grown wealthy and mighty during 30 years, floating the securities of companies that became great-Sears, Roebuck, General Cigar, Studebaker, Cluett Peabody, Woolworth, Endicott Johnson, Postum, Continental Can, May Department Stores, Pillsbury Flour, National Dairy Products, Goodrich Rubber, Lambert Pharmacal, Gimbel Brothers, Warner Brothers. Goldman Sachs had a bright partner named Waddill Catchings, Tennessee-born Harvard graduate who had been by successive and increasing turns lawyer, steelman and J. P. Morgan assistant in purchasing supplies for the Allies during...
...summer of 1929 Mr. Williams and Mr. Catchings joined forces and raised a shower of fireworks over Wall Street. Goldman Sachs Trading Corp. had (besides ventures in Chicago's Foreman Bank and the Detroit banking situation) acquired a stake in Pacific Coast utilities. Turning eastward Mr. Catchings cast his eye on the great North American...
...vacation) they launched a mighty investment trust. It was launched with $102,500,000 of assets of which $67,500,000 was supplied by the public who bought a million shares of preferred stock at $50 and a million shares of common at $17.50. The rest was supplied by Goldman Sachs Trading Corp. and Mr. Williams' Central States Electric Corp., each of which acquired 2,000,000 shares of common. No prosaic name had this huge trust. Mr. Williams in his wife's honor named it after her beloved Shenandoah Valley. Magnificent was Shenandoah's reception...
...month later Messrs Catchings & Williams were ready for a new flotation. This one was named after Mrs. Williams' beloved Blue Ridge mountains. Goldman Sachs Trading and Central States Electric put up $62,500,000 capital (through Shenandoah) to purchase 6,250,000 shares of Blue Ridge at $10 a share, and the public was offered a million shares of preferred at $51.50, a million shares of common at $20. The public was not expected necessarily to buy with cash. It was invited to trade its blue chip stocks for Blue Ridge shares. The offer was: to take shares...
Perkins Scholarships: Henry Black, of Reinbeck, Iowa; and Paul Burton DeWitt 1L, of Sheldon, Iowa. Rumrill Scholarships: David McConnell, of Davidson, North Carolina. Stoughton Scholarships: Henry Maurice Goldman 2Du, of Dorchester; Joseph Vincent O'Brien 2M, of Dorchester; Alfred Hertz Rosenthal '33, of Dorchester; and William Alexander Sloan 2L, of Dorchester...