Word: harrimans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ragged proletariat in Russia, but a well-ordered community." Thus, with a somewhat defensive air, spoke William H. Hamilton, Assistant Vice President of the Guaranty Co., Manhattan, as he returned last week from a tour of Soviet Russia, made in company with Mrs. Hamilton and Mr. & Mrs. W. Averell Harriman. "Everywhere we received excellent treatment-not relatively excellent, but excellent!" said Mr. Hamilton. "Americans are welcomed in Russia and are given every courtesy. . . . The Russians are doing amazing things. . . . "I used to think that the president of the National City Bank and the president of the New York Central Railroad...
...Harriman stopped off for a visit to the Riviera and will return on the Olympic next week...
...into the firm another young man of financial perspicacity?Abraham Wolff. It was not long before Jacob Schiff dominated the partnership, and it was due largely to him that Kuhn, Loeb & Co. has made its close connections with European bankers. He, too, it was who fought with Edward Henry Harriman (1848-1909) against James Jerome Hill (1838-1916) and John Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) for control of Northern Pacific in 1901. That created the great "corner" in Northern Pacific, whose shares rose to $1,000 each. But Jacob Schiff and J. P. Morgan, foreseeing panic, let the "shorts" settle...
...Sabin is chairman of the building fund committee which includes E. Roland Harriman, Charles Hayden, Philip Le Boutillier and Frederick Strauss. Officers of The Boys Club of New York are: Charles H. Sabin president; William W. Skiddy, W. Averell Harriman and Allan McCulloh, vice presidents; Henry Stanford Brooke, secretary, and Richard A. Strong treasurer...
...brokers, bankers, milliners, writers, politicians, decorators, that, like the dapper melodies that reflect the trends of the times, they have become a national tradition. But there are not many women whose earned income exceeds $10,000 a year. Here and there one finds a woman capitalist like Mrs. Edward Harriman, who last week received the honorary degree of Master of Letters from New York University. Mrs. Harriman is a discerning patron of the arts and sciences, an elderly, slender and competent person who helped her famed husband in his ventures and is now the sole executrix...