Word: goldmans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wall Streeter whose advice is most often sought by U.S. businessmen is Sidney J. Weinberg, 67, who now has the oracle's seat once occupied by Bernard Baruch. As a senior partner of Goldman, Sachs & Co., one of The Street's top ten banking houses, Weinberg has won an enviable reputation as an underwriter skilled at judging the new issue market just right. His most recent success was selling $350 million of Sears, Roebuck debentures-history's biggest debt offering-in a bond market so soggy that some underwriters doubted the issue could be marketed...
...with that of the traditional Ivy League Wall Streeter that he uses it as an asset, plays up his Brooklyn background ("I'm just a dumb guy from P.S. 13"). One of eleven children of a wholesale liquor dealer, he never got farther than P.S. 13, started with Goldman. Sachs as a $3-a-week porter's assistant. After a World War I stint in the Navy, he became a securities trader, a Goldman, Sachs partner in 1927, helped to run investment trusts, including Goldman, Sachs Trading Corp., which proved to be a disaster. It fell from...
...began to take over directorships held by Goldman, Sachs, he learned another lesson. He was on the board of McKesson & Robbins when President F. Donald Coster defrauded the firm of millions, and killed himself. After that, Weinberg kept close tabs on every corporation for which he was a board member, built a reputation as an invaluable addition to any board. In 1946, General Electric had mapped an expansion program of several hundred million dollars, and President Charles E. Wilson was not sure how his board would react. His worries vanished when Weinberg supported the plans with hard facts and figures...
Roger Tuckerman and John Mudd led the Crimson attack with two goals apiece; Kay Khan accounted for the other score. Pete Goldman and Howard Whitcomb tallied for the Bruins...
When the varsity let down in the third period, Brown quickly capitalized. Goldman scored his goal on a breakaway and Whitcomb got his when Crimson goalie Tom Bagnoli and Keyes became confused and each thought the other would clear a loose ball in front of the varsity nets...