Word: goldman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...George D. Phelan, whose salary was recently cut from $100 to $60 per week, confided to Cashier Alfred L. Goldman of J. S. Bache & Co. that he had stolen $695,000 from the firm's petty cash fund in the past 13 years. He told Cashier Goldman he was confessing "because I know I can't continue these thefts forever...
...band concerts which Mrs. Daniel Guggenheim gives free in memory of her mining husband. The bandsmen all had new dark blue uniforms with G on their brass buttons, their lapels, their caps. The G did not stand for their patroness' name but for Bandmaster Edwin Franko Goldman, who has conducted free Guggenheim concerts for 14 summers...
...explain this in part Counsel Gray last week called upon the investment trust's president, conservative Walter E. Sachs. But Banker Sachs was not president when the company was mushrooming. President then was dynamic, imperious Waddill Catchings, a rampant bull who was also then the dominant partner of Goldman, Sachs & Co. It is said that much of the time Banker Catchings' partners never knew what he was doing. Deals would be completely negotiated before he would ask their perfunctory approval...
...purchase of a 49% interest in Frosted Foods, Inc., owner of the Birdseye quick-freezing process. Postum Co. (now General Foods Corp.) bought the majority interest with an arrangement for payment of preferential dividends if & when earned. Frosted Foods had invested about $1,750,000 in developing the process. Goldman Sachs Trading and Postum paid $23,500,000 cash to persons affiliated with J. P. Morgan & Co. for the company. After Banker Sachs became president, Goldman Sachs Trading wrote down its Frosted Foods investment to $1, later sold it to General Foods for $900,000 in their stock...
...Laugh Parade Funnyman Ed Wynn came ambling on stage aboard a camel. Forgetting the correct word to make the camel kneel, he tries several commands, finally whispered ''Goldman Sachs." The camel collapses in a heap...