Word: goldmans
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Baseball for Rabbis. Louis' closest friend was another young Torah student almost as sobersided as himself. Solomon Goldman descended from a line of eleven rabbis. Now head of Anshe Emet synagogue in Chicago and one of the most respected scholars in U.S. Judaism, he remembers his friend Louis as painfully shy. In Goldman's house he would often lower his head and walk past Goldman's mother and sisters without a word. Goldman attributes this to Finkelstein's piety: to walk with the head held high, Jewish tradition teaches, is bold and immodest...
...painful shyness, Louis Finkelstein was never backward when he had a cause. In order to counteract the drift of Brownsville away from the Torah, he and Sol Goldman launched an intense juvenile crusade - buttonholing youngsters, speaking on street corners, organizing study clubs, and lining up pledges to observe the Sabbath...
...expert; and George Harrison, president of A.F.L.'s Brotherhood of Railway Clerks. Last week the body snatcher finally decided his job was done. He stopped in to see his boss and old friend, regretfully said goodbye, and headed back to his senior partnership in Wall Street's Goldman, Sachs...
...became a "flower & feather horse," i.e., a delivery boy for women's hats. He went to Wall Street during the 1907 Panic, earned $5 a day for saving places in lines outside banks that depositors thought would fail. Then he got a job ("assistant to the porter") with Goldman, Sachs...
...Navy (he enlisted as a 2nd class cook, ended up a special agent for the War Trade Board), Weinberg became a securities trader. In seven years he had enough money ($104,000) to buy a seat on the New York Stock Exchange, in 1927 became a partner in Goldman, Sachs. As Weinberg's fame as a shrewd judge of stocks and men spread through the Street, so did his influence. He became director of more than a dozen corporations, including such giants as Sears, Roebuck, B. F. Goodrich, Cluett, Peabody, Continental Can, and General Foods. When World...