Word: hertz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John Daniel Hertz is keen, amiable, modest but, in a business tussle, a ferocious fighter. It bothers him not a whit that on a polo field in his heavy tortoise-shell spectacles, with his helmet snugly strapped under his big chin, and seated in a curious grey, woolly saddle, he cuts a strange figure. When he misses a shot, which is often, he always shouts...
...personnel. Ralph Wolf and Leon H. Kronthal retired from the old house of Speyer & Co. and three new partners were admitted-Henry Herrman and Charles G. Stachelberg, both long associated with the firm, and George Nelson Lindsay, onetime vice president of Bancamerica-Blair Corp. And John Daniel Hertz was taken into the banking house of Lehman Brothers...
...John Hertz started to retire after he sold his Yellow Cab Manufacturing Co. in 1925 to General Motors. He gave more time to his race horses, turned down a $1,000,000 offer for Reigh Count, his Kentucky Derby winner, remarking: "I think any fellow who would pay a million for a horse ought to have his head examined, and the fellow who turned it down must be absolutely unbalanced." But his thick, sinewy figure continued to be a familiar sight wherever Chicago deals were done. In 1931 Kuhn, Loeb & Co. called him in to help with their ailing Paramount...
...first four decades of his life John Hertz never thought of retiring. Austrian-born Jew, he was brought to the U. S. as a child, ran away from home after a spanking. He became a copy-boy in a newspaper office (Chicago Daily News), learned to spell well enough to do police reporting and finally rose to be assistant sports editor. When his newspaper was merged, he started to sell automobiles. He sold them so fast that the trade-ins piled up into a nightmare. Then he hit on the idea of painting his used cars and sending them...
...Central Park, Nursemaid Ruth Volz found "a string of beads," put them on. Few days later her husband noticed that they had an emerald clasp, rightly guessed that they were the $70,000 pearl necklace lost by Leona Jane Ettlinger while walking with her father, Sportsman John Daniel Hertz, founder of Yellow Cab Co. (TIME, Dec. 18). Mrs. Volz returned the pearls, collected $5,000 reward, returned to her job as nursemaid with a Park Avenue family. Exasperated because friends daily distracted Mrs. Volz with congratulatory visits and telephone calls, because newshawks and cameramen flocked about her, Mrs. Volz...