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...normally polite business of investment banking, two firms have long been known as the Hatfields and the McCoys. One is Chicago's Halsey, Stuart & Co., which staunchly fights for competitive bidding for security issues; the other is Manhattan's Morgan Stanley & Co., which just as staunchly believes that the best way to float securities is to negotiate a price with the issuer...
...yearly expenses from $105 million to $92 million, slashed the payroll from 17,000 to 10,000, cut the property tax almost 50%, created the job of state "business manager." He resigned in 1943 to enter the Navy as a lieutenant commander, became flag secretary to Admiral William Halsey (who called him "a great naval officer"), and rose to captain. Franklin Roosevelt called him from the Pacific in 1945 to serve as a U.S. delegate to the San Francisco Conference that wrote the United Nations charter...
...King held Admirals Halsey and Kinkaid both at fault in the Battle for Leyte Gulf-Halsey for letting himself be drawn off base by a Japanese decoy force, Kinkaid for not making dawn air searches...
...Halsey's The Folks at Home. 89. For his unearthing of "Tubbo" Gilbert's testimony before the Kefauver committee, the Chicago Sun-Times's Ray Brennan...
...Author Halsey's arguments are often narrow and sometimes absurd. She writes, in fact, as if the split between God and Mammon had not plagued man from the beginning. Nonetheless, her book is the work of an earnest armchair moralist with an honored American tradition behind her. If, as is very likely, The Folks at Home puts Author Halsey back into the moneymaking nightmare, it will be because she has laid a tremulous but honest finger on a national nerve...