Word: harrimans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Aviation Corp., nominally a $200,000,000 holding and development company underwritten by Lehman Bros, and W. A. Harriman & Co., Inc. They will at first offer only $40,000,000 of stock to buy substantial interests in all branches of aviation (plane manufacture, motors, accessories, transport). William Averell Harriman is chairman of the directorate, Robert Lehman chairman of the executive committee...
...Harriman is famed for the world-sweep of its interests?so Lehman is famed for almost sensationally successful financing in recent years. Significant is Lehman's entrance into aviation financing, which so far has interested only a few of the big houses?e. g., Hayden, Stone & Co., National City. P. W. Chapman, Pynchon. Salesmen of Aviation Corp. stock (which is not to be confused with Richard F. Hoyt's Aviation Corp. of America) suggested that it might become the Electric Bond & Share of aviation...
...left his Niagara Falls law office to serve in the New York State Legislature. He organized the Buffalo & Niagara Falls Railway. He organized the Electric City Bank, then went to the Pacific Coast and organized the North Coast R. R. An even more famed organizer, the late great Harriman, offered him a job, but, "No," said he, "I don't care much for railroads." Back to New York State he went. He had decided that Albany had no hotel worthy of the State capital. He built the Ten Eyck. Later, his second hotel - the Onondaga, Syracuse - was built. Then...
...Somehow, Colonel," said a reporter with a memory, "that makes one think of what E. H. Harriman was reported to have said when Colonel Roosevelt started on his African hunting tour: 'I hope a lion bites...
...like the expression so well that I want to be reminded of it by having a copy of TIME'S cartoon framed and hung in my den. Your cartoonist has put prime "wattles" on President Coolidge, Secretary Kellogg, Senator Vare, Senator Borah and "Big Bill" Thompson. HENRY HARRIMAN TYLER New Rochelle...