Word: goldman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Spectacular even in Bull Market days was the upward rush of Goldman Sachs Trading Corp. common stock ($108 to $224 in two months). One day last week Goldman Sachs made another spectacular jump but this time only from $1.88 to $3.63. As soon as Goldman Sachs started jumping last week Wall Streeters guessed at what was coming. Last spring it became known that Tri-Continental Corp. was angling for a large interest in Goldman Sachs. When Tri-Continental ceased angling, it was rumored that Atlas Utilities Corp. was working out a deal...
...first business day of 1931, Harvey Dow Gibson, then chairman of the executive committee of New York Trust Co., and a group of wealthy friends bought control of Manufacturers Trust Co. from Goldman Sachs Trading Corp. They paid $7,300,000. The deal brought an end to much gloomy talk about Manufacturers Trust after its proposed merger with Bank of United States had fallen through (TIME, Jan. 12). When J. P. Morgan one afternoon walked out of his little grey banking house at No. 23 Wall Street and dropped in to see Mr. Gibson in his new office...
...tasted wormwood oftener than honey. Like many a fellow radical she was born a Russian Jewess, arrived in the U. S. a simple young immigrant. Her family settled in Rochester, N. Y. and Emma went to work like anybody else. The execution of the Chicago anarchists (1887) turned Emma Goldman's stomach, transformed her from a potential to an actual Red. Meantime she had married (at 18) one Jacob Kershner, whom she quickly discovered was impotent. Emma left him, her family and respectability, went to Manhattan to plunge into anarchism and free love. She made rapid headway in both...
...made many friends. Johann Most, fiery anarchist editor, became her idol. She had lovers?Alexander Berkman, her lifelong comrade and "Fedya." She began to study labor history and improve her English. She made speeches. It was not long before radicals all over the U. S. knew Emma Goldman; the police knew...
When trouble broke out in 1892 in Homestead, Pa., between Carnegie Steel Co. and its employes, Emma Goldman and Berkman felt they ought to go out there and fight. But Berkman had a better idea: he would shoot the capitalist-in-charge, Henry Clay Frick. With Emma's blessing he went to Pittsburgh, shot Mr. Frick three times, but unsuccessfully, and went to jail for 14 years. His attempt canonized Berkman in Emma's eyes, set an untarnishable halo round his head. When her former guide & friend Johann Most made slighting remarks about Berkman, Emma horsewhipped him publicly. Her fiery...